User blog:Johnny.Nickolas Hans/Star Trek - Project Earth History

Earth (also known as Tellus, Terra or Sol III) is a class M planet, the third planet in the Sol star system in the space of the galaxy's Alpha Quadrant, at coordinates 1.23N 2.79W. It is the Federation capital, and the primary political subdivision of United Earth, one of five founding members of the Federation. Its sentient species include Humans and cetaceans. Earth was formed 4.6 billion years ago within a nascent Sol system. Its biosphere began forming 3.5 billion years back as amino acids appeared in the region known as France. (TNG episode & novelization: All Good Things...) Two billion years ago, single-celled life began evolving. In 2150, with the last nation-states joining, the planet was unified under the United Earth government. It was a founding member of the Coalition of Planets in 2155, and of the United Federation of Planets in 2161. the 24th century, hundreds of humanoid species lived there, including Bolians, Vulcans, and Ktarians. (VOY: "Hope and Fear") The President's office, the Federation Council, as well as Starfleet Headquarters and the main campus of Starfleet Academy were all located on Earth. Located at the very core of the Federation, during the Dominion War Earth's strategic importance was on par with worlds like Andor, Berengaria VII, and Vulcan. It was also the destination of two Borg cubes. Earth was a spheroid-shaped terrestrial planet with a circumference of 24,874 miles (40,075 kilometers), a mass of 5.98×1024 kilograms and a mean density of 5.517. Its atmosphere had an average temperature of 75 °F (24 °C) and consisted of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, and smaller percentages of krypton, neon, and argon. The Earth system consisted of a large natural satellite named Luna. Earth's orbit around its sun, Sol, measured more than two hundred million kilometers in diameter. (TNG: "Relics") Earth was located in the Alpha Quadrant, less than ninety light years from the boundary to the Beta Quadrant. Bow", "Two Days and Two Nights"; Star Trek Into Darkness production art) It was a little over sixteen light years away from the planet Vulcan, less than ninety light years away from the Klingon homeworld, and approximately ninety light years away from Risa.