New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1910-12-24
THE EARTH.

The earth is an immense round
bal rolling around through space
You have seen a boy throw a ball
high up in the air and it turns
round and round. and also travels
through the air.
Whe you are on atraln and il
goes very fast. the trees and fen
ccs seem to run backward. OF
course We know they really don t.
You can not feel the earth move
and as YOU watch the sun it seems
| to come mp in the east and move
upward over us and down to the
west. The sun is really standing
still and the earth * spinning
around from west to east. The
earth also trave's very fast
through space around the sun. u
is somewhat like a boy with a
string tied to a pail and he swings
it around his head. SO the earth
flies aS Jund the sun. 1t turns
around three hundred and sixty
Five times in travelling once
around the sun. SO we get three
hundred and sixty-five days in a
year. The earth rs ,vehy large.
Around the middle from east to
west it is nearly $4,000 miles. 1t
turns .O42 miles in an hour. OF
seventeen miles a minute. Fast
trains lun only one mile a minute.
In the United States. when the
sun finally shines on San Fran
cisco about half past six in the
morning. at the same time it is
half past seven in Denver, and
half-past eight ST. louis, and half
past nine Pittsburg.
The earth aso travels long
way around the sun. The distance
is about 500, 100000 miles.
Whew! is not this long, We will
call the path of the earth its orbit
The path of the earth does not go
straight above and under the sun.
The path SAINTS a little north of
the sun above and little south OF
The sun beneath. The earth trav-
els in this path year after year.
1t goes from west to east. 1t
travels about nineteen miles a sec
ond through the air The sun is
a very large ball of fire and it
shines in all directions. The earth
is a cold bali of land and water
We would need |. 300,0OO earths to
equal the sun. The sun looks
small because it is so far, far away.
1t is 93,O0OlOOO miles from the
earth. The sun shines on half the
earth and it is day. The other
side is dark and it is night. The
earth turns 1,042 miles an hour.
and so every hour 1,O42 miles be-
comes day and On the other side
! .O42 miles Of earth becomes night.
When it is six O'Clock in the
morning here. it is six O'Clock in
Ihe evening in China; it is 12l
, clock at noon in Europe; and it
8 midnight in the Hawaiian Is
ands.
The moon is large cold ball
which travels around the earth |
It is much smaller than the earth. |
The sun shines on the moon and
he moon reflects the sunlight |
Town on the earth and makes the
lark side of the earth moonlight.
The moon goes around the earth
nee in twenty-nine days.
The stars do not travel around
'ur sun. They are large balls of
ire and are very, very far away.
he suns light travels from the
un to the earth in eight minutes
bout 100000 miles a minute.
'ome stars are so far away that
heir light reaches the earth in a
undred years. These stars are
yer $50, 1000. 100000 miles away.
ome stars are so far away that
re can not SEE them with our eyes,
ut must look through a very
trong telescope to see them
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