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Planets Go Around the Sun About 584 Million Miles a Year
We travel around the sun about 584 million miles every single year. If you divide that by about 365 days and then do unit conversions to miles per hour, we are traveling around the sun at about 67,000 miles per hour. The earth is the third most eccentric planet in our solar system after Venus and Neptune. Other planets in the solar system have even more eccentric orbits,. meaning their orbits are even less circular than ours.
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