How quickly is the Earth moving?

Question

How quickly is the Earth moving taking into account:

*Orbit around the Sun

*The Solar System's orbit around the arms of the Milky Way

*How quickly the Milky Way is moving

Also how quickly are YOU moving taking into account the above factors and the Earth's actual rotation?

Answer 1

The Earth moves at 18.5 miles (29.8 kilometers) a second in its orbit around the sun and 150 miles (241 kilometers) per second in rotation around the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

National Geographic

Answer 2

I love this question. It would be cool to be able to see the relative vectors of each movement including the earths rotation. I wish it was possible to see a timelapse of my position on the earth's surface from an independant absolute frame of reference.  We are moving much faster than I ever realized!!

Answer 3

Adding to the other poster...

And the galaxy moves within the local group at ??? unit/time.

And the local group is moving toward the center of the Virgo supercluster at ??? unit/time.

And the Virgo cluster is moving toward the ??? at ??? unit / time.

And the universe is expanding in the fourth dimension given a comoving expansion rate of ??? per ???.

See the point? :)

There really is no meaningful answer to this question unless you specify another object or location in space and ask "Relative to ???, how fast is the earth moving?"

Enjoy.