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To: Red Badger

The International Space Station (ISS) is in orbit around the Earth at an average altitude of 248 miles (400 kilometers). It circles the globe every 90 minutes at a speed of about 17,500 mph (28,000 km/h). In one day, the station travels about the distance it would take to go from Earth to the moon and back.0


10 posted on 04/19/2023 10:20:07 AM PDT by The Louiswu (You cannot free a man from the chains which he reveres.)
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To: The Louiswu

And that planet Earth is revolving around the Sun at a speed of nearly 30 kilometres per second, or 67,000 miles per hour.

And the Sun and it’s retinue of assorted balls of dirt, ice, gases and rocks is revolving around the Galactic center traveling at an average speed of 230 km/s (828,000 km/h) or 143 mi/s (514,000 mph) within its trajectory around the galactic center.

And our our galaxy and its neighbors, the so-called Local Group, are moving at 600 kilometers per second (1.34 million miles per hour) in the direction of the constellation Hydra.................


12 posted on 04/19/2023 10:42:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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