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Calista241

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2. This is just taking into account the rotation of the earth.

Reply to yuiyoshida (Original post)

Mon Apr 25, 2016, 08:38 PM

Apr 2016

They're not even looking at the movement of the earth through the solar system, or the solar system's movement through the Milky Way Galaxy, which is estimated to be over 500,000 mph.

And we don't even know how fast our galaxy is orbiting around the Local Group's center of mass.

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