Travel Bug Dog Tag Earth, The World's Largest Travel Bug

Trackable Options
Found this item? Log in.
Print Info Sheet
There are 4 users watching this listing.
Owner:
47Dad47 Send Message to Owner Message this owner
Released:
Saturday, May 8, 2004
Origin:
California, United States
Recently Spotted:
In the hands of the owner.

The owner hasn't set their collectible preference.

Use TBD702 to reference this item.

First time logging a Trackable? Click here.

Current Goal

The mission of this travel bug is to continue to support life of all kinds as it travels through the cosmos.

Distance Traveled So Far: From May 9, 2004 to May 29, 2004, this Travel Bug has traveled 383,616,000 miles.

Milestone: On June 4, 2004, this Travel Bug will have traveled over One Billion Miles. 1,006,992,000 miles to be exact.

About This Item

Earth: The World's Largest Travel Bug

This is the World's Second Living Travel Bug.

This Travel Bug tag for Spaceship Earth will be located in a geo-cache in Sacramento, California, U.S.A. That geo-cache location will be announced on this webpage when it is set up.

This Travel Bug will officially start its' travel as a travel bug on May 9, 2004. It's travel mileage will be kept up to date on this website periodically. Eventually, automatic calculaters will be added to keep its mileage instantly up to date.

Here are the distances it will travel starting on the first second of May 9, 2004:

Distance on surface of Earth this travel bug will travel at Sacramento, California:

  • 518 miles per hour
  • 24,902 miles per day
  • Distance this travel bug will travel around the Sun:
    • 66,600 miles per hour
    • 1,598,400 miles per day
  • Distance this travel bug will travel around the Milky Way Galaxy:
    • 558,000 miles per hour
    • 13,392,000 miles per day
  • Distance this travel bug will travel through local group of Galaxies:
    • 666,000 miles per hour
    • 15,984,000 miles per day
  • Check back to this website periodically to see how far it has traveled since May 9, 2003!

    Distance traveled as of May 29, 2003:

    • Surface of Earth:...............597,648 miles
    • Around the Sun:............38,361,600 miles
    • Around Milky Way:........321,408,000 miles
    • Through Local Galaxies:.383,616,000 miles
  • Spaceship Earth is one of the few heavy planets of our solar system. It has existed about 5 billion years and has approximately 5 billion years left before our sun will explode and destroy everything as far out as the asteroid belt beyond the planet Mars. It is the only known place in existence to have life. It is the only place in existence known to have God.

    • Gallery Images related to Earth, The World's Largest Travel Bug

    View 1 Gallery Image

    Tracking History () View Map

    • 01-04 of 04 records ·
    • 01
    Visited 10/29/2021 47Dad47 took it to Memorial Hall Park #1 California   Visit Log
    Write note 1/15/2007 Sparrowhawk posted a note for it   Visit Log

    "Maximum distance from the sun: 94 million 537 thousand miles

    Minimum distance from the sun: 91 million 377 thousand miles

    Mean distance from the sun: 92 million 957 thousand and 200 miles

    Mean Orbital velocity: 66000 miles per hour

    Orbital eccentricity: 0.017

    Obliquity of the ecliptic: 23 degrees 27 minutes 8.26 seconds

    Length of the tropical year: equinox to equinox 365.24 days

    Lenght of the sidereal year: fixed star to fixed star 365.26 days

    Length of the mean solar day: 24 hours and 3 minutes and 56.5555 seconds at mean solar time

    Length of the mean sidereal day: 23 hours and 56 minutes and 4.091 seconds at mean sederial time

    Mass: 6600 million million million tons

    Equatorial diameter: 7927 miles

    Polar diameter: 7900 miles

    Oblateness: one 298th

    Density: 5.41

    Mean surface gravitational acceleration of the rotating earth: 32.174 feet per second per second

    Escape velocity: 7 miles per second

    Albedo: 0.39
    Albedo: 0.39
    Albedo: 0.39
    Albedo: 0.39
    Albedo: 0.39
    Albedo: 0.39
    Albedo: 0.39"

    -Vangelis
    Retrieve It from a Cache 1/18/2006 47Dad47 retrieved it from Angel's Landing Utah   Visit Log

    Thanks for the vacation!
    47Dad47
    Write note 7/25/2005 TheMboys posted a note for it   Visit Log

    Noticed this is like a Virtual TB & that we did the Angels landing hike last month, so I thought I would claim it. TheMboys from Simi Valley, CA.
    data on this page is cached for 3 mins
    • 01-04 of 04 records ·
    • 01