speeding up?

Feeling like things are speeding up?

Happy Perihelion Day! So what are your predictions for 2016?

January 2, 2016

(credit: NASA)

That may be because they are: Earth is rushing along right now at about 30 kilometers per second (almost 19 miles per second) — moving about a kilometer per second faster than when Earth will be farthest from the Sun on July 4, notes Bruce McClure of EarthSky Tonight.*/.../