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While the Earth orbits around the Sun at a relative 66,700 miles per hour, the Sun is not a stationary object. It is generally accepted that the Earth, Sun, Milky Way and the Local Cluster all move through the Universe at 373 miles/second (600Km/s.)

A widen perspective could include several other facts as well. The earth's rotational speed, depending on how close to the poles varies from 0 to 1040 miles/hour, which at the high end is about .288 miles/sec.

This combined with the 66,700 mile/hour mentioned above, is about 18.5 miles/second.

It is commonly known that the earth rotates around the sun. But the sun is not standing still, it also rotates on its spiral arm round the galaxy at about 447,000 miles/hour or 124 mile/sec.

Combining this with the 18.5 mi/s =143 miles/second; 514,000 mi/h (827,000 km/h)

Add this to the generally accepted view that the galaxy travels through the universe at about 373 mile/second (600km/sec):

Total earth speed through space is about: 516 miles/second (830 km/s); 1,860,000 miles/hour (2,990,000 km/h)






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