Marginally disturbing fact: The fast moving rock we live on

I often find it a marginally disturbing fact that we all live on a spinning rock that is hurtling through space at 105,000 kilometres per hour (66,000 miles per hour for my American readers) as it loops around the sun; and then the sun itself is looping around the milky way galaxy at an astounding 792,000 kilometres per hour (483,000 miles per hour). So as the Earth loops around the sun at 105,000 kph it is also moving sideways through space at 792,000 kph as Earth is pulled along around the galaxy by the sun's gravitational hold on us.

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