AFineDayForScience

AFineDayForScience t1_j3k141p wrote

This made me curious about the orbital speed of each planet.

Mercury: 47.87 km/s (107,082 miles per hour), or a period of about 87.97 days

Venus: 35.02 km/s (78,337 miles per hour), or a period of about 224.7 days

Earth: 29.78 km/s (66,615 miles per hour), or a period of about 365.256365 days

Mars: 24.077 km/s (53,853 miles per hour), or a period of about 686.93 days

Jupiter: 13.07 km/s (29,236 miles per hour), or a period of about 11.86 years

Saturn: 9.69 km/s (21,675 miles per hour), or a period of about 29.42 years

Uranus: 6.81 km/s (15,233 miles per hour), or a period of about 83.75 years

Neptune: 5.43 km/s (12,146 miles per hour), or a period of about 163.72 years

Pluto: 4.74 km/s (10,603 miles per hour), or a period of about 247.92 years

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