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Do planets orbit fast or slow?
A:
They move pretty quickly! The planets all orbit at different speeds. The closer a planet is to the Sun, the faster the planet orbits. Mercury is the fastest planet, moving at 47.87 km/s while Neptune orbits at 5.43 km/s. For reference, a bullet travels at roughly 1 km/s out of a rifle.
Posted on June 15, 2017 at 8:01 pm
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