2006-08-07 11:25:58 · 10 answers · asked by konkaboola 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
What a lot of nonsense from most of the answerers!
The question quite clearly indicates that it is asking in relative not absolute terms. The only sensible answer so far came from the person who gave numbers for the orbital velocity, spinning of the galaxy etc... excellent response.
We are NOT travelling at an aggregate speed of 1/2 lightspeed, why do people spout this nonsense as if it was fact?
To the earlier list of relative motions I can add that the solar system as a whole is travelling towards the star system Lyra but I cannot recall the speed...sorry.
Since the orbit is elleiptical there are indeed times when the Earth is falling away from the sun and others when it is falling towards it. To do neither it would have to be a perfectly circular orbit.
2006-08-07 13:28:07 · answer #1 · answered by narkypoon 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It is travelling around the sun at a speed of 30 km per second.
According to the theory of general relativity the earth is moving towards the sun at an amazingly small rate.It will take them 10^27 years to collide.
2006-08-07 21:20:36 · answer #2 · answered by meno25 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no one single answer to this question the way it is phrased.
There is no absolute coordinate system in the universe, everything is relative and needs some particular frame of reference.
In the Earth's frame of reference, the Earth is stationary and the Universe moves around it. From the point of view of the sun, it is stationary and everything moves around it.....and so on, you get my drift?
Without specifying a reference frame in which to make the measurements, there is not any single "speed" of distance, it is all relative.
2006-08-07 18:38:14 · answer #3 · answered by mrjeffy321 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you add the speed we going around the sun the speed of the sun in the galaxy the speed of the galaxy moving in space we moving at about 1/2 the speed of light
2006-08-07 18:32:38 · answer #4 · answered by highlander44_tx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earth is in an eliptical orbit around the sun.
2006-08-07 18:30:10 · answer #5 · answered by Wounded duckmate 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we're not moving away from or towards the sun...we are orbiting AROUND the sun
2006-08-07 18:31:05 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You really need to study basic astronomy... Send me a message if you want me to tell you a few things, but I'm not going to bother unless you really want to learn.
2006-08-07 18:31:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is moving through space, quite quickly, but as we dont have any particular frame of reference for the absolute position within the universe, we have to guess from the stars around us.
As to whether we are moving away from the sun, dunno.
2006-08-07 18:29:11 · answer #8 · answered by The Drunken Fool 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
earth rotates
moon revolves around earth
earth revolves around sun
sun revolves around milky way
get it?
2006-08-08 16:50:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are a ******* mongole
2006-08-07 18:29:20 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋