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To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various speed levels between 10−⁹ m/s and 3 × 10⁸ m/s.

Speed Chart
Decade of speed [m/s]	Speed of object [m/s]	Speed of object [km/h]	Object
10^-9	1.3×10^-9	4.68×10^-9	Average rate of the Moon receding from the Earth.
	0.3×10^-9 to 3×10^-9	1×10^-9 to 1×10^-8	Typical relative speed of continental drift
	3×10^-9	1.08×10^-8	Hair growth.
10^-6	6×10^-6	2.16×10^-5	Speed of a snail.
10^-1	0.28	1	1 km/hour
10^0	1	3.6	1 m/second
	1-1.5	3.6-5.4	Average walking speed.
10^1	10	36	Speed of a sprinter.
	5 - 25		Speed of propagation for unmyelinated sensory neurons.
	25	90	Peak speed of a galloping horse.
	30	108	Typical speed of car (road), Cheetah - fastest of all terrestrial animals, Sailfish - fastest Fish.
	36	130	Land speed record for a human powered vehicle.
	40	144	Typical speed of a train.
	90	320	Typical speed of a high-speed train, a diving Peregrine Falcon - fastest bird.
10^2	10 - 120		Speed of propagation for mammalian motor neurons.
	130		Wind speed of a tornado.
	161	580	Speed of Japanease Maglev train in 2003.
	340	1,224	Speed of sound at sea level.
	341.107	1,227.985	Max speed reached by the jet-propelled car ThrustSSC in 1997. (Land speed record.)
	428	1,540.8	Max speed of Bell X-1.
	464	1,670	Speed of Earth's rotation at the equator.
	603	2,170.8	Speed of the Concorde airliner.
	975	3,510	Muzzle velocity of M16 rifle.
	981	3,532	SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest airplane driven by a mechanical jet engine
10^3	2000	7,200	Estimated speed of a thermal neutron
	2019	7,268.4	Speed of the North American X-15 rocket plane.
	3111	11,199.6	Speed of the X-43 rocket plane.
	7777	28,000	Propagation of the explosion in a detonating cord, typical speed of a satellite and the space Shuttle in low Earth orbit.
10^4	11,082	39,895	Speed of Apollo 10 - High speed record for manned vehicle.
	29,800	107,280	Speed of the Earth in orbit around the Sun.
	70,220	252,792	Speed of Helios B - Fastest man-made object.
Faster	2×10^5	7×10^5	Speed of the solar system orbiting the center of our Milky Way galaxy.
	4.5×10^5	1.6×10^6	Typical speed of a particle of the solar wind, relative to the Sun.
	1×10^7	3.6×10^7	Typical speed of a fast neutron.
	3×10^7	1×10^8	Typical speed of an electron in a cathode ray tube.
	1.24×10^8	4.47×10^8	Speed of light (electromagnetic radiation) in a diamond (Refractive index 2.417).
	2×10^8	7.2×10^8	Speed of a signal in a cable.
	299,792,458	1,079,252,849	Speed of electromagnetic radiation in vacuum (see the Speed of light).