How fast is the earth moving?

Scientific American ^ | 26 Oct, 1998 | Rhett Herman

[MtnClimber]

Consider the movement of the earth's surface with respect to the planet's center. The earth rotates once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09053 seconds, called the sidereal period, and its circumference is roughly 40,075 kilometers. Thus, the surface of the earth at the equator moves at a speed of 460 meters per second-or roughly 1,000 miles per hour. As schoolchildren, we learn that the earth is moving about our sun in a very nearly circular orbit. It covers this route at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers per second, or 67,000 miles per hour. In addition, our solar system--Earth and all-whirls around the center of our galaxy at some 220 kilometers per second, or 490,000 miles per hour. As we consider increasingly large size scales, the speeds involved become absolutely huge!

[winodog]

Thanks, I have wondered about that.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks MtnClimber.

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks MtnClimber.

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[mowowie]

I read somewhere that the Great Attractor is moving faster away than we are being pulled by it.
We will never hit it.

[MtnClimber]

Interesting, I will have to research it more!

[discostu]

Eric Idle’s got you covered on this one

https://youtu.be/yq4uCWtQE24