How fast is Virginia moving around the Sun in its annual revolution?
Assuming the average distance from the Earth to the sun is 93 million miles (in summertime, Virginia is actually further away from the sun than in winter), the formula is 2 X pi X r/t = 2 X pi X 93,000,000/365.2564/24 = 66,658 miles per hour. How fast is Virginia and other parts of the Milky Way galaxy moving through intergalactic space? Roughly 500-570,000 mph2 day rather than 24,000 miles per hour. At 24,000mph, we would all be whirled off the globe and flung into space… • One day is NOT the time it takes for the earth to revolve around its axis completely. One day is the time from mean noon to mean noon. The two differ because the earth revolves around the sun a little, while the earth rotates once. • A lunar month is NOT the time it takes for the moon to revolve around the earth. It is instead the average time it takes for the phases to repeat. The revolution period is 27.5 days. During this time, the earth has gone about 1/12.7 of the way around the sun. It takes an extra two da
