11 Rarely Known Facts About Our Solar System
Everyone knows Jupiter is the biggest planet, while Saturn has beautiful rings, but aren’t these facts now old and too repetitive? So get ready to explore our incredible Solar System with fascinating facts?
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4. Unimaginable Speed
Our Solar System orbits the Milky Way Galaxy, at an average velocity of whopping 720,000km/hr. Even at that speed it take 230 million earth-years to make one complete orbit around the galaxy. While the Earth’s orbital speed around Sun is 108,000km/hr, with that speed it takes 365days, 5 hours, 59 minutes and 16 seconds. Now just imagine the vastness of the Solar System and the Galaxy we are in.
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