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Sunday, February 12, 2012

The basics of our planet Earth

25,000 miles in circumference. We all do not really conceive the overall size of the earth and really take it for granted as to what happens on a daily basis, as it has for billions of years, another number which is hard to conceive.  Our earth rotates around it axis at a speed of 1041 miles per hour.  It is this rotation which developes the weather systems and the spin of the currents.  Some currents spin to the left creating a low pressure system and some rotate to the right creating a high pressure system which everyone sees refered to on the nightly weather.  Now while the earth is spinning, it is also in a path rotation around the sun along with all the other planets in our solar system.  Our earth is traveling 66,000 miles per on this track and takes 356 days to travel in an elipitical orbit around the sun.  This is why you see the sun change positions as the seasons change. Now our galaxie, yet another system is traveling through space at 600,000 miles per hour all which we are totally un aware of during our daily living.  Therefore, our solar system travels through space 14,400,000 miles per day or 5 billion, 256 million miles a year.  My bewilderment is how do we fit into the overall universe and what are we rotation around?