Question

Help? This is for my astronomy class. Can anyone explain this to me please. thank you so much.

the earth take 365.25 days to orbit the sun. What is it's relative speed to the stars in days? hours?

Hint: v=d/t

Answer 1

distance = 360 degrees and the time= 24 hours=1 day

Answer 2

Are we to assume the star in question is the sun? the terms stars (plural) is confusing.

Answer 3

I meant to put star. Yes , it is reffering to the sun

Answer 4

heloo blairvelvet.

Answer 5

Can we assume the radius of this huge circlular orbit is 8 million miles?

Answer 6

hey blairelevet where are you u look cute.

Answer 7

hey

Answer 8

Calculate the circumference using D of 16 millions miles and pi
C=50.3 million miles. Using your hint v=(50.3 10^6)/(365.25 x 24 hrs)

Answer 9

Is 57,380 mph the answer?

Answer 10

no. there are two answers. one is between .5 and 1 and the other is between .02 and .06 but ty for trying:)

Answer 11

Gee what was I thinking, I meant a radius of 98 million miles or a diameter of 196 million miles, giving a circumference of 615.75 million miles using the d=rt equation,
v=615.75 million/(365.24 days)=1.69 million miles per day, or .07 million miles per hour.