Best Answer: Walking a mile a day would improve your general cardiovascular health. It would give you more stamina and endurance. It would help your resistance to disease. It would build muscle mass in your legs.
A summary of these methods: 1  Cepheid variable stars and their cousins the RR Lyrae stars are the primary distance indicators in the galaxy and the local group. 2  They pulsate radially (basically at the sound speed in the envelope of the star) with a period inversely proportional to the square root of the density.
Anyway, the relevant numbers are: Earth-Sun distance, d = roughly 150 million km (defined as 1 Astronomical Unit). Radius of the Sun, R sun = roughly 700,000 km. Orbital speed of Earth, v = roughly 30 km/s. References: 1  Great Moments in the History of Solar Physics 1. 2  Eratosthenes of Cyrene. 3  Historical attempts to detect Astronomical parallax. 4  The Earth.