Saturday, October 12, 2013

Earth


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Taken from: Wikipedia
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Wikipedia

Earth dimensions

Land surface 149,000,000 km² (57,510,000 Sq. miles) (29.2% of total surface)
Water surface 361,000,000 km² (139,440,000 Sq. miles) (70.8% of total surface)
Equatorial circumferences 40,075 km (24,901 mi)
Meridional circumference 40,009 km (24,860 mi)
Equatorial diameter 12,756.3 km (7,926.4 mi)
Polar diameter 12,714 km (7,900 mi)
Polar radius 6,356.89 km (3,949.99 mi)
Volume of the Earth 1,080,000,000,000 km³ (260,000,000,000 cubic miles)
Mass 5.98x1024 kg (6.592x1021 U.S. tons)

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Taken from:

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/profile.cfm?Object=Earth&Display=Facts

Discovered By
Known by the Ancients
Date of Discovery
Unknown
Orbit Size Around Sun (semi-major axis)
Metric: 149,598,262 km
English: 92,956,050 miles
Scientific Notation: 1.4959826 x 108 km (1.000 A.U.)
Perihelion (closest)
Metric: 147,098,291 km
English: 91,402,640 miles
Scientific Notation: 1.47098 x 108 km (9.833 x 10-1 A.U.)
Aphelion (farthest)
Metric: 152,098,233 km
English: 94,509,460 miles
Scientific Notation: 1.52098 x 108 km (1.017 A.U.)
Orbit Circumference
Metric: 939,887,974 km
English: 584,019,311 miles
Scientific Notation: 9.399 x 108 km
Average Orbit Velocity
Metric: 107,218 km/h
English: 66,622 mph
Scientific Notation: 2.9783 x 104 m/s
Orbit Eccentricity
0.01671123
Orbit Inclination
0.00005 degrees
Equatorial Inclination to Orbit
23.4393 degrees
Mean Radius
Metric: 6,371.00 km
English: 3,958.8 miles
Scientific Notation: 6.3710 x 103 km
Equatorial Circumference
Metric: 40,030.2 km
English: 24,873.6 miles
Scientific Notation: 4.00302 x 104 km
Volume
Metric: 1,083,206,916,846 km3
English: 259,875,159,532 mi3
Scientific Notation: 1.08321 x 1012 km3
Mass
Metric: 5,972,190,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
Scientific Notation: 5.9722 x 1024 kg
Density
Metric: 5.513 g/cm3
Surface Area
Metric: 510,064,472 km2
English: 196,936,994 square miles
Scientific Notation: 5.1006 x 108 km2
Surface Gravity
Metric: 9.80665 m/s2
English: 32.041 ft/s2
Escape Velocity
Metric: 40,284 km/h
English: 25,031 mph
Scientific Notation: 1.119 x 104 m/s
Sidereal Rotation Period (Length of Day)
0.99726968 Earth days
23.934 hours
Minimum/Maximum Surface Temperature
Metric: -88/58 (min/max) °C
English: -126/136 (min/max) °F
Scientific Notation: 185/331 (min/max) K
Atmospheric Constituents
Nitrogen, Oxygen
Scientific Notation: N2, O2

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