How fast does our solar system move relative to the center of the milky way?
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The Sun is rotating aroun the centre of the Milky Way and heading in the direction of Alpha Hercules at the speed of 150 miles a second.
Makes Roger Bannister's sub-4-minute mile look rather slow doesn't it?
At the same speed. Problem is what speed. You need a reference point because everything is moving.
216 KPS
134 MPS
Towards Galactic Longitude 55 degrees, based on 8200 parsecs from the galactic centre.
Our solar system orbits the Milky Way at 135 miles per second (486,000 mph) --http://www.nrao.edu/pr/1999/sagastar/...
Estimates for the Milky Way's velocity through space range from 291,000 to 2,236,936 mph
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/milky_way_g...
The local cluster of galaxies our Milky Way belongs to is moving towards a super cluster of galaxies known as Abell at some 1,342,161 mph
God should be spelled B-I-G B-A-N-G
PBrax@netscape.com
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