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How fast are you traveling if you stand still on the equator and on 40 degrees North parallel in kilometers and in miles per hour?
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The answer depends on what you consider to be the fixed frame of reference. In order to rotate once during 24 hours, a point on the equator is moving at approx 1600 km per hour (1000 mph). But the earth is also revolving around the sun and this requires it to travel the 970 million km orbit in one year. This is approx 107,000 km per hour (66,000 mph). Furthermore the sun is wandering around relative to other stars in our local neighbourhood. It is moving towards Vega at around 70,000 km per hour (43,000 mph). Next, the sun and its local neighbours are all part of the spinning of the Milky Way Galaxy and that causes the sun to move, relative to the galactic centre at approx 792,000 km per hour (483,000 mph). Beyond that, there is the motion of the Milky Way Galaxy towards the Andromeda Galaxy, and the motion of the Local Cluster and so on (ad infinitum).
So the key question is how fast you are moving relative to WHAT?
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What lines run parallel through the equator?
The only line that runs parallel through the equator is THE EQUATOR. [The Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn are parallel to the equator, but are north and south of it (respectively) at 23.5 degrees. So they do not run through the equator.] The lines of longitude all run through the equator, but they are not parallel to each other since they all meet up at both the North and South Poles.
What is the geographic grid used on the globe is based on the division of a circle in what degrees?
360 degrees from pole to pole and 180 degrees in circles parallel to the equator.
What are the degrees of the Arctic Circle?
It is the parallel of latitude that runs 66° 33' 44" (or 66.5622°) north of the Equator.
What is the 49th parallel?
The 49th parallel north is a latitudinal circle on the Earth that is 49 degrees above the Earth's equator. This imaginary line is used as the border between the United States and Canada.
What is at o degrees?
The Equator is at 0 degrees.
Name of the parallel that is located at 0 degrees latitude?
The Equator
What is Parallel of earth at 0 degrees?
It is the equator.
What degrees north of the equator is this parallel?
Space
What is the name of the parallel circling the globe at 0 degrees latitude?
That's the equator.
A parallel degrees north of the equator?
281 percent
Approximately what degrees north of the equator is this parallel?
Space
What is the name of the parallel that is located at 0 degrees longitude?
All parallels, or latitudes, cross 0 degrees longitude. 0 degrees longitude is the prime meridian. 0 degrees latitude, or parallel, is the equator
Is San Francisco south of the 40th parallel?
40 th parallel = circle af latitude 40 degrees north of equator ? Yes it is, it is 37.76 degrees north of the equator
What are some lines of latitude?
Latitudes are parallel lines around the earth, parallel with the equator and marking the same distance from the equator. They are referred to as the angle made at the centre of the earth, from the equator to the point in question. The poles are at ninety degrees from the equator, so the maximum angle for any parallel of latitude, is 90 degrees. The equator is at zero.
What is the name of the parallel that is located 0 degrees latitude?
The Equator
Approximately what degrees north of the Equator is the Arctic Circle parallel?
66.5622 degrees north
Are the equator and the tropic of cancer the same thing?
No. The Tropic of Cancer is parallel to the equator and 23.5 degrees north of it.
