What is the speed of the solar system?

Answer 1

Unless you specify relative to what, this is a meaningless question.
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Answer 2

The solar system travels at an average speed of about 515,000 miles per hour (828,000 km/h) as it orbits around the center of the Milky Way galaxy. This motion is a combination of the rotation of the planets around the Sun and the Sun's movement within the galaxy.

Answer 3

It really depends what you will accept as an "object". The fastest known things are particles/waves that only travel at the speed of light, such as the photon / light wave, and the (still a little hypothetical) graviton / gravity waves. Next there are particles that travel very near the speed of light, such as the neutrino, and some extremely fast particles that come from outer space, as well as particles that go through a particle accelerator; in each of these cases, the difference in speed, compared to the speed of light, is insignificant. If you were thinking about larger objects, anything which falls into a black hole will be accelerated to very nearly the speed of light, too, by the immense gravitational attraction.

Answer 4

Estimates place the speed of rotation around the Galaxy at approximately 230 kilometers a second.

This means the solar system has only been around the Milky Way, 20 times since it's creation.

Answer 5

Earth travels around the Sun in an elipse; the Sun is in one of the focal points of the elipse.

Earth travels around the Sun in an elipse; the Sun is in one of the focal points of the elipse.

Earth travels around the Sun in an elipse; the Sun is in one of the focal points of the elipse.

Earth travels around the Sun in an elipse; the Sun is in one of the focal points of the elipse.

Answer 6

Photons">PhotonsThey owe their speed due to the lack of mass. More infos in the Discussions Page. ORLight">LightThey are also fast. They travel at the speed of 186,000 miles per hour. The light of the Sun can reach the Earth within 8 minutes.

Answer 7

As it is closer, the orbit is smaller. And it can traverse that distance faster than the planets that are farther out.

That doesn't necessarily make it faster, though. Imagine a man walking around the North Pole versus a man sprinting along the equator. Both are "moving around the earth", but while the guy near the North Pole will complete a circuit faster, he's not actually moving faster than the man at the equator.

Answer 8

Johannes Kepler, working from Tycho Brahe's observations, discovered that the planets do this.

A century later, Isaac Newton worked out the predictions and implications of his own law of

universal gravitation, and showed why planets must do this.

Answer 9

The Sun is moving.

How much the sun moves depends on what type of motion one is asking about.

There are several points to make however.

1. Five hundred years ago, there was a great debate about whether the sun went around the Earth or the Earth went around the sun. That was settled with the Sun being at the center of the solar system with the planets going around it. So, people said the Sun was the fixed center.

2. But, there is some movement to the Sun. Just as the Sun attract the Earth and other planets, the planets attract the Sun. The force of the planets on the sun do cause it to wobble some, but it is so small that it takes careful measurement to detect it. (As an aside, most of the planets that are discovered to be rotating around nearby stars are discovered because the stars wobble from exactly the same force of their planets pulling on them.)

3. The whole solar system is moving. The Sun is one of a hundred billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, and they all rotate in a big swirl. It takes over a billion years for one complete motion around the galaxy, but we are actually moving very fast in this giant circle.

4. The whole galaxy is moving as part of the

Answer 10

Approximately 486,000 miles per hour on average. Depending on where they are in their orbit around the sun, their speed can be as low as 380,000 miles per hour or as high as 592,000 miles per hour.