Illyria: Baby Name of the Day. By appellationmountain 6 Comments. Sheâs a Shakespearean place name with a romantic sound and a sci fi twist. Thanks to Felecia for suggesting Illyria as our Baby Name of the Day. Illyria is the setting for Shakespeareâs Twelfth Night, and the Bard borrowed it from the map.In real life, it was once the name for the western part of the Balkan peninsula, a part of the world with a reputation as being contentious and war-torn, but also incredibly beautiful. The Romans are responsible for the name.llyria: Baby Name of the Day. By appellationmountain 6 Comments. Sheâs a Shakespearean place name with a romantic sound and a sci fi twist. Thanks to Felecia for suggesting Illyria as our Baby Name of the Day. Illyria is the setting for Shakespeareâs Twelfth Night, and the Bard borrowed it from the map.
The earth rotates once every 23 hours, 56 minutes and 4.09053 seconds, called the sidereal period, and its circumference is roughly 40,075 kilometers. Thus, the surface of the earth at the equator moves at a speed of 460 meters per second--or roughly 1,000 miles per hour. As schoolchildren, we learn that the earth is moving about our sun in a very nearly circular orbit. It covers this route at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers per second, or 67,000 miles per hour.
Take those 4 minutes a day, each day for a year, and it adds up to one extra day, or spin. It takes the earth roughly 24 hours to spin on its axis. 24 hours It takes 3minutes 56seconds less than 24hours for the Earth to spin (rotate) once on it's axis.It takes 365.2422days for the Earth to revolve once around the Sun.he period of this actual rotation is approximately 25.6 days at the equator and 33.5 days at the poles. However, due to our constantly changing vantage point from the Earth as it orbits the Sun, the apparent rotation of the star at its equator is about 28 days.