{"id":4615,"date":"2011-02-06T16:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4615"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:39:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:39:40","slug":"the-incredible-relative-speed-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/the-incredible-relative-speed-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"The Incredible Relative Speed of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/how-fast-the-earth-is-movin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4616\" title=\"how-fast-the-earth-is-movin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/how-fast-the-earth-is-movin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/how-fast-the-earth-is-movin.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/how-fast-the-earth-is-movin-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Earth is Hottest When it is Furthest From the Sun on Its Orbit, Not When It Is Closest\" href=\"http:\/\/www.misconceptionjunction.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/the-earth-is-hottest-when-it-is-furthest-from-the-sun-on-its-orbit-not-when-it-is-closest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for the Sources and to Learn More Interesting Astronomy\/Earth Related Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Along with orbiting around the sun at 66,600 mph, the Earth is also rotating at its axis at about 1,070 miles per hour.\u00a0 So you are simultaneously hurtling around the sun at 66,600 mph while sitting on a rock that is spinning at 1,070 mph. On top of that, our whole solar system is rocketing through space around the center of the Milky Way at around 559,234 mph.\u00a0 On top of that, our galaxy is hurtling through space at around 671,080 mph, with respect to our local group of galaxies.\u00a0 On top of that, for all we know, our entire Universe is hurtling through some unknown medium at some other ridiculous speed.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for the Sources and to Learn More Interesting Astronomy\/Earth Related Facts Text Version Along with orbiting around the sun at 66,600 mph, the Earth is also rotating at its axis at about 1,070 miles per hour.\u00a0 So you are simultaneously hurtling around the sun at 66,600 mph while sitting on a rock that is spinning at 1,070 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1144,1220],"class_list":["post-4615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-astronomy-facts","tag-speed-of-the-earth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7054,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4615\/revisions\/7054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}