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Saturday, June 04, 2011

The facts about the earth

  1. The estimated age of the Earth is 1 billion 60 million years.
  2. The area of the surface of the Earth is 510 million square kilometers approximately.
  3. The area of the land (29.08%) is 149 million square kilometers.
  4. The area covered with water (70.92%) is 361 million square km.
  5. The approximate weight of the Earth is 5.9 X 10^21 tons.
  6. The volume of the Earth is 1 trillion 83 billion cubic kilometer.
  7. The density of the Earth is 5.5. times of that of water.
  8. The equinoctial circumference of the Earth is 40077 kilometer.
  9. The polar diameter is 12714 Km.
  10. The approximate distance from the Sun is 148 million 800 thousand kilometer.
  11. The approximate distance from the Moon is 384 thousand kilometer.
  12. The highest point of the Earth is the summit of Everest which is 8848 meters high from the sea-level.
  13. The speed of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun is 107220 km/hr.
  14. The speed of the rotation on its axis is 1670 km/hr.
  15. The Earth completes one round of the revolution in 365 days 5 hours 48 minutes and 45 seconds.
  16. The Earth rotates once in 23 hours 56 minutes and 4 seconds.

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