How fast is the earth moving toward the sun?

Answer 1

There's no single answer because Earth is constantly moving towards or away from the sun. Remember, Earth's orbit around the sun is elliptical, not spherical. This means that sometimes we're moving towards our closest approach (perihelion) and sometimes we're moving towards our most distant (aphelion). As Earth gets closer and closer to the sun its velocity increases, while the farther away we are the slower is our velocity. At no time does Earth physically move directly towards the sun.

Answer 2

Let's see, an average of about 93 million miles from the earth, and it takes about 365.25 days to do the orbit. The circumfrence of a circle, though ours is an elipse, is the diameter times pi. That would be something like about 186 million times 3.14, around 584 million miles to travel. That would be about 1.6 million miles per day, or between 66-67,000 miles per hour. Don't you feel like we are really whizzing along now? The math is really a bit more complicated. The sun is moving around the galaxy center, so in an absolute terms it is pretty difficult to figure if we were to count all the factors, most of which are not something we would feel, as if we just drove around on a curvy road.

Answer 3

From all we know, the Earth isn't moving TOWARDS the Sun, my theory is that the Sun is already expanding. We may be moving closer at like, an inch per 100 years, but nothing drastic. We are moving AROUND the sun at about 29.8 kilometers per second, or 67,000 miles per hour. It spins on it's axis at about .47 kilometers per second, or approximately 1,000 miles per hour. Here is a website that may help you, also a cool fact, the Earth is closest to the sun in January and farthest in July!

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/kids_space/earth_galore.html&edu=elem

I hope that I was able to help you out!

Answer 4

We are accelerating towards the sun at 5.94624859 × 10^-6 m/s2 (circular motion), but staying about an average displacement from the sun.

Answer 5

The earth strikes around the sunlight at about 1000 mph, taking a 365 days to finish the circle. The sunlight strikes around the galactic center at about one hundred,000 mph, taking thousands of thousands and thousands of years to finish the circle. because the sunlight strikes by ability of the galactic fingers, it really is going to go by ability of intergalactic cloth and airborne dirt and mud clouds. A collison with yet another renowned man or woman is noticeably not likely. With an accepted 4 gentle years of separation between stars, it really is like hitting the in easy words different boat contained in the Pacific. we are contained in the Orion Arm of the Milky way at the moment and for most thousands and thousands of years yet to go back.

Answer 6

•How fast is the Earth spinning? 0.5 km/sec
•How fast is the Earth revolving around the Sun? 30 km/sec
•How fast is the Solar System moving around the Milky Way Galaxy? 250 km/sec
•How fast is our Milky Way Galaxy moving in the Local Group of galaxies? 300 km/sec

Answer 7

Actually, we are slowly moving away.

Answer 8

It is not...
If anything, we are creeping away from it...

Answer 9

at NEGATIVE (-) 10 mph