Tudor Hughes wrote:
Would someone be kind enough to confirm the speed the earth travels
through
space in it's Sun orbit - ignoring Galaxy expansion (son's science
homework).


I make it 466,017 metres per second on average.

I'm glad it's a bit slower than that or we'd have left the sun long
ago. The true answer is 29785 m/s.

Tudor Hughes.


I have 29865 m/s though that's because I took the year to be an average
year of 365.25 days.

Joe
Wolverhampton