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a point on the sun's equator travels at about 4500 miles/hr.
a point on the Earth's equator travels at about 1000 miles/hr).
The sun is revolving about the center of the Milky Way at
about 150 miles per *second* (that's over a half-million miles/hr!)

That means that we are moving at around 500.000M/h respect to some other objects out of the milky way, since everything is relative we could then say that those objects are moving at that speed respect to us if we consider us a static reference point

2006-10-08 10:52:44 · answer #1 · answered by MeGa 1 · 0 0

absolutely, if the sun exploded the pieces coming at you would be faster than the figure you asked about, also galaxies and quasars at the edge of the visible universe are rushing away from you even faster, at high percentages of the speed of light. The Andromeda galaxy is approaching you at 300 kilometers per second right now, and the comet that hit Jupiter(shoemaker/levy 9) was moving over 160.000 kph-though not the speed you asked about- even our own voyager spacecraft is moving 495,000,000 kilometers in a year or 56,000 kph and so i believe we will even achieve your speed eventually-

2006-10-08 18:17:04 · answer #2 · answered by scootda2nd 2 · 0 0

Sure it's possible. That's only 138.88 km/s so it's subluminal (by a large amount) and violates no known laws of physics.

Lots of space debris hit the atmosphere at those kinds of speeds.


Doug

2006-10-08 17:58:34 · answer #3 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 0 0

there are actually many example, for fast moving body around us. Light for example. (well light is actually photon, which mean energy packet, but also a body, because it has mass that get attracted to the gravity)
TV is the simple daily example! =))

2006-10-16 09:34:52 · answer #4 · answered by sapikurus 1 · 0 0

It depends on what you mean.

Some galaxies are receding from us at that velocity. Is that what you mean?

2006-10-08 17:53:40 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0 0

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