Would you guess that the Earth is spinning at 1,000 mph around its axis and at the same time hurtling through space on its orbit around the Sun at 67,000 mph? Here’s why you don’t feel all that motion.
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Professor of Astronomy, UMass Lowell
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Professor of Polar Geodesy and ARC Laureate Fellow, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science, Texas A&M University
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Research Associate Professor in Planetary Astronomy, Meteorology, University of Reading
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Professor of Physics Instruction, University of Texas at Arlington