The rotation of Earth and other planets around the Sun is depicted in Figure 2 below, NASA’s animated real-time exhibit depicting where planets and other objects in the Sun’s orbital space are in time. Dividing these distances by 365, we arrive at 2,600,000 Km (1,600,000 Miles) per day. Assuming a circular orbit for simplicity, the circumference of the Earth’s orbit around the sun is 940,000,000 Km (584,000,000 Miles). The greater rate and distance is that traveled by the Earth in its annual rotation around the sun.Įarth is 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) from the sun, ~150,000,000 Km (93,000,000 miles). However, this is the lesser of the rates at which Earth is moving and the distance it is traversing each day. The Earth rotates on it’s axis at the rate of 1,666 Km/hour covering the distance of ~40,000 Km/day (at the surface on the equator).
Personally, I have a few million airline miles under my belt, something I am not proud of relative to environmental impact, but I mention it for perspective. Keeping it in perspective, commercial jets fly at 960 Km/hour (600 Mph), so they add or take away enough time to be able to feel it when landing on the other side of an ocean or continent.
If we’re flying in a relatively fast aircraft we can add or subtract from this number, allowing us to move forward or backward in planet time, hence the phenomenon of “jet lag” relative to our own circadian rhythm. So day after day we are zooming around Earth’s axis at the rate of 1,666 Km per hour (1,035 Mph). In my discussion of Coherent Breathing, I often reference the physiologic fact that the average adult body contains ~24,000 miles of blood vessels, that if laid end to end would stretch around the equator, a very interesting factoid if we think about it.with
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Consequently, if one is at the equator sitting in an arm chair, in 24 hours we would travel the full circumference of Earth, which equals πD or 3.14 x 12,738 Km, the result being 39,900 Km (24,000 Miles). Let us begin our journey with a discussion of Earth and the distance that we travel each day with Earth’s rotation, alone.Īt the equator, the Earth’s diameter is 12,738 Km (7917 miles). This article takes us beyond the relatively local motion of the solar system, summing the distances we travel as functions of Earth, the solar system, galactic motion (where our solar system resides in an arm of the Milky Way galaxy estimated to be 100 light years in diameter), and universal expansion, where the universe we are part of is moving ever-outwardly.
This is all made possible by electronics, and powerful computing, relatively recent advancements in technology that have allowed us to peer further and deeper into the universe than with optical telescopes alone, which came into being several centuries before. Today the instruments of astro-science are powerful optical telescopes, space cameras, huge radio telescopes, advanced spectral analysis capable of examining the entire spectrum of electromagnetic emissions in great detail, all this to understand the motion of the universe and our place in the universal big picture. However, beyond the action of the Earth turning daily and circling the sun annually, there is a much larger picture, known to us only via instrumentation.Įarly navigation of the open seas required more than guesswork, consequently some of the earliest instruments for examining the heavens came from inventors for purposes of navigation on the open seas including “the gnoman”, “the kamal”, “the astrolabe”, and “the sextant”, in order of technological advancement, all early inventions that helped mariners navigate based on an objective position of the sun, moon, and stars. Unless one has had cause to consider it, we probably accept that the sun rises in the morning and sets in the afternoon, day after day, and that seasons change year after year, these regular periodic changes becoming well known to us early in life, after which we largely accept them for granted as the totality of what is going on planet Earth. In case you don’t feel like you’ve been going anywhere lately, especially in the last couple of years, here’s a different way to see, via the lens of the astronomical sciences.Īstronomy and astrophysics tell us that we’re very wrong about this, that in fact we’ve traveled millions of miles in just the last 24 hours. Major references for this article come from.
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