Orbit Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

One orbit, with a radius of 42,000 kilometers, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“It doesn’t take 24 hours for the earth to turn completely, but 23 hours, 56 minutes, and fourseconds”

— Adam Anderson

“The distance from the surface of the Earth to the center is about 3,963 miles (6,378 km).”

— Jenny Kellett

The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years…

— Jules Verne

We've sent a man to the moon and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could…

— Andy Rooney

I repeat that the distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that…

— Jules Verne

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

— Robert Crippen

Earth travels in the space at the speed of 108,000 kilometres per hour. When you walk calmly in a forest, you must know that…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour…

— Neil H. McElroy

“While spinning daily on its own axis, the earth also orbits the sun (again in an anti-clockwise direction) on a path which is slightly…

— Graham Hancock

Geo-stationary orbit is actually real estate - you can only put so many satellites up there. It's like waterfront property at the beach. Everyone…

— Jim Cantrell

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.

— James A. Michener