If you were driving in a straight line in a car and the sun was about to set how fast would you have to be going for the sun not to drop over the horizion.
2007-02-10 10:46:27 · 6 answers · asked by jason h 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
It depends on your latitude...at the equator you would have to go fastest...about 1670 kph. At more extreme latitudes, the circumference gets smaller so your speed would not have to be so fast.
At the North Pole, you can just stand there and it won't set for 6 months or so.
2007-02-10 10:49:09 · answer #1 · answered by gebobs 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The earth's circumference is ~25,000 miles so if you wanted to keep up with the sun you would have to go roughly 1041mph. This does not take into account all the other factors like time of year, physical location, gas stops, closed bridges, and so on.
2007-02-10 18:57:57 · answer #2 · answered by koovaaa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on where you are, close to the equater or close to the pole ? The wider the circumference of the earth the fqster you'd have to go, about 1100 miles an hour on the equator and just a few miles an hour around the poles (during a season)
2007-02-11 08:04:45 · answer #3 · answered by jhstha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
At midnorthern latitudes, about 900 miles per hour.
2007-02-10 19:50:45 · answer #4 · answered by anonymous 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You need to go as fast as the earth's rotation at your particular latitude.
2007-02-14 08:21:41 · answer #5 · answered by Tenebra98 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
67,000+ mph
2007-02-10 18:54:44 · answer #6 · answered by jacah5 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋