(April 22, 2014 at 10:11 am)rhn2704 Wrote:
The planets in our solar system orbit around the sun. One orbit of the Earth takes one year. Meanwhile, our entire solar system orbits the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Our sun and solar system move at about 800 thousand kilometers an hour – that’s about 500 thousand miles an hour – in this huge orbit. So in 90 seconds, for example, we all move some 20,000 kilometers – or 12,500 miles – in orbit around the galaxy’s center.
The verse mentions ...the Sun and the Moon,each floating in its orbit.
Where is the fault in the verse ??
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The Earth's solar system is actually part of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, which is being absorbed into the larger Milky Way Galaxy. Consequently, our solar system is not in the plane of the Milky Way but is offset at at rather high angle to it. We don't exactly revolve around the center of the Milky Way Galaxy as many people think.