1976 - Hans Zimmer

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 66 000 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

Length 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 sidereal 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