Posted by robin on Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 2:22pm.
The earth's average radius is 6378 km, as I recall. (It is thicker at the equator)
Multiply that by 6.6 for the orbit radius, R.
2 pi R is the distance travelend in a day.
Divide that by the number of seconds in a day to answer the last question.
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