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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?
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
Approximately what degrees north of the equator is this parallel?
Please provide the name of the parallel you are referring to for me to determine its specific degrees north of the equator.
What degrees north of the equator is this parallel?
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What is the name of the parallel circling the globe at 0 degrees latitude?
The parallel circling the globe at 0 degrees latitude is called the Equator. It divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
How many kilometers is 12.5 degrees north of the equator?
12.5 degrees north of the equator is approximately 1388 kilometers.
A parallel degrees north of the equator?
281 percent
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
What is the measurement of the equator?
The equator has a circumference of approximately 24,901 miles (40,075 kilometers).
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
The equator is an imaginary circle drawn around the earth that divides it into northern and southern hemispheres What are the imaginary lines called that are parallel to the equator?
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Is the equatator a parallel or a meridian?
The equator is the parallel of zero latitude.
