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The earth take 365.25 days to orbit the sun. What is it's relative speed to the star in days? hours?

Hint: v=d/t

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distance = 360 degrees and the time= 24 hours=1 day
Calculate the circumference using D of 16 millions miles and pi C=50.3 million miles. Using your hint v=(50.3 10^6)/(365.25 x 24 hrs)
radius of 98 million miles or a diameter of 196 million miles, giving a circumference of 615.75 million miles using the d=rt equation, v=615.75 million/(365.24 days)=1.69 million miles per day, or .07 million miles per hour.
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