Show WOULD YOU BELIEVE that you ton can walk mues mile an hour have you ever thought of the dis dl tance you travel while you are out on an hovirs stroll possibly you walk three miles within the hour but that does not by any means represent the distance you travel the earth turns on its axis every twenty four hours for the sake of round figures we will call the earths circumference 24 miles and so you must have traveled during the hours stroll 1000 miles in the axial turn of the earth but this is not all the earth makes a journey around the sun every year and a long but rapid trip it is the distance of our planet from the sun we will put at 92 miles this is the radius of the earths orbit halt half the diameter of the circle as we call it the whole diameter is therefore miles and the circumference being the diameter multiplied by is about this amazing distance the earth travels in its yearly journey and dividing it by we find the daily speed about then to get the dist distance anee you rode around the sun during your hours walk divide again by 24 and the result is about miles but this is not the end of your hours trip the sun with its entire brood of planets Is moving in space at the rate of miles in a year this is at the rate of a little more than tham miles a day or miles an hour so adding your three miles of leg travel to the hours axial movement of the earth this to the earths orbital journey and that tha t agal again D to the earths excursion with the sun and you find you hava hav traveled in the hour miles |