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	Mike Fila	2011-07-08 , 16:05
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Originally Posted by Joorin

The earth's circumference is, roughly, 40000 km at the equator.

It makes a full turn in, roughly, 24 hours.

So, the earth moves at, roughly, 1700km/h at the equator.

I meant to write per min wrote per hour in stead. So its 28 km/m and change at the equator. Times that number by the cosine of latitude and that is the speed where you are.

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