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SPACESHIP EARTH AND THE VASTNESS OF SPACE

SPACESHIP EARTH AND THE VASTNESS OF SPACE
Mike Priaro, P.Eng.
First uploaded Dec 23, 2018
Spinning at just over 1600 km/hr (0.4 km/sec) at its equator, orbiting the Sun at 30 km/sec, travelling with the Sun around our Milky Way galaxy at 200 km/sec, and moving through inter-galactic space with the Milky Way at 580 km/sec.

Your actual speed through space: mind-boggling.

Your total distance travelled through space in one year: about 25 billion km, or 2.5 times the diameter of the solar system. 

And in a lifetime, two trillion km, which, to put in perspective, is only 5% of the the distance to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri which is 40 trillion km away.

Exactly 50 years ago this Christmas Eve astronaut Bill Anders caught this photo of spaceship Earth rising over the moon as the Apollo 8 spacecraft orbited around the moon:
Merry Christmas, fellow astronauts!
SPACESHIP EARTH AND THE VASTNESS OF SPACE
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SPACESHIP EARTH AND THE VASTNESS OF SPACE

Exactly 50 years ago this Christmas Eve astronaut Bill Anders caught this photo of spaceship Earth rising over the moon as the Apollo 8 spacecraf Read More

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