As the earth travels around the sun, how many miles an hour is it traveling?
1 Answer
Feb 18, 2016
By knowing the circumference of earth's path around sun and diving by the time it takes e can calculate the speed.
Explanation:
Earth sun distance 93 million miles.
circumference 2 x Pi x 93,000,000 miles
2x3.14278 x 93,000,000=.584557080.
number of hours in one year 365.25x24 8766 hours.
we get speed of aerth in hours 66684 miles per hour.
small variations is possible as earths orbit is not circle but ellipse.Asl exact day is not 365.25.