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3rd January 2011

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Worrying about 2012? Let me help!

Earth’s mass is 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms. That’s about 5 million, billion, billion kilograms. That’s a big, big, big number. Far bigger than it seems.

Earth is 24,901.99 miles in diameter. Considering 1000 miles from the UK to America is vast, that’s a pretty big number too.

Earth is travelling through space at 108000 kilometers (67000 miles) per hour. That’s appreciable by humans as being INSANELY quick.

And it rotates (from the equator) at 1,038 miles per hour. That’s also insanely quick - just a little slower than a Eurofighter Typhoon in a vertical drop, engines firing at full afterburner.

Now you tell me how anything can stop 5 septillion tons of rock, that big, that wide and that fast.

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