About 18.5 miles per second.
Go figure: distance to sun = 93 million miles
so orbit length is 186 x pi million miles = 584,336,000 miles
and it takes us a year to go that far
Well, not really. If Earth's orbit were a circle, that would be correct, but it's not. Since it's an ellipse, the distance of the Earth to the Sun changes, as well as it's speed around the Sun. Some months it's moving faster than others. But that is an average speed.
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The above answer did not take into consideration the orbit pivotal point of the earth is at the center of the sun, so to get a more accurate speed, you would have to add the radius of the sun (432,450 miles) to the average distance to the sun due to the elliptical orbit (92,955,887.6miles).
So let's reconfigure:
Average Distance to the center of the sun = 93,379,337.6 miles
Distance earth travels in a year around the sun = 586,795,757,48 miles
Distance earth travels in a day around the sun = 1,606,559.23 miles
Distance earth travels in a an hour around the sun = 66,939.97miles
Distance earth travels in a minute around the sun =1,115.67miles
Distance earth travels in a second around the sun = 18.59 miles
Granted that 0.09 miles doesn't seem alike a lot of distance but that is an additional 475.2 feet a second.
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