Ok, my head hurts.

[Aranor]

Alright guys, trying to figure out the speed at which our galaxy moves for a part of the 95157 fic. Using that as a universal measurement of time.

Here is what I have. Our location (Earth) is approximately 28,000 light years from the center of our galaxy. This gives us a diameter of 56,000 light years. A circumference of 175840 light years. (56,000 X 3.14) (One rotation)

A web site I found

http://www.pd.astro.it/E-MOSTRA/NEW/A5005MWY.HTM

estimates at our lateral distance we travel at approximately 28 kilometers per second.

So, one light year, 299792.458 Kilometers per second / 28 KPS = 10706.8735 seconds to reach one rotation. / 60 = 177.447 minutes. / 60 = 2.974 hours to reach the distance light travels in one second? Do I have that right or am I full of sh#*ty numbers?

If I have that right it would take 10706 hours to reach one light year. Multiply that by the circumference and I get 214902.1735 years for one galactic rotation at our currenct distance.

.....If I got that right I'm buying myself a beer.....

[Spartan Warlord]

...u musta been really bored to sit there and work that out...

[largo]

Why not just ask Zeo1234 these are the kinds of things he tends to know.

[*zeo]

It's easy enough to look up,

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/PatriciaKong.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way

And our star completes an orbit around the galactic center of our galaxy once every 230 million years, so during its 4.5 billion years of existence, the Sun has orbited the Milky Way Galaxy only about 19 times.

[Aranor]

Wow I was way off. Thanks Zeo.

Ok, I found my mistake. I was using one light year as the total distance.

Going by what was on Wiki I have

240 Kilometers per second x60 x60 x24 x 364 = (7547904000 kilometers travelled in one year)

27000 light years. ( Rough distance from core)

299792.458 Kilometer per second = speed of light.

1079252848.8 Kilometers per hour

25902068371.2 Kilometers per day

9,428,352,887,116.8 KPY = one light year in Kilometers.

254,565,527,952,153,600 = diameter of our suns rotation around core

799,335,757,769,762,304 = circumference

Circumference divided by distance travelled in one year equals 105,901,685.7885 Earth years to rotate once around galactic core at our distance.

[Frost]

ok now my head is huring good job.