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.
Each planet spins on its axis at its own speed. Earth takes 23 hours and 56 minutes to rotate once on its axis. Jupiter has the fastest rotational rate taking only 9.9 hours to rotate once, whereas Venus has the slowest, needing over 243 Earth days for one rotation.