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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
Hard to imagine a rock of about 1 metre spinning that fast! Now imagine a star that measures anything up to 16 kilometres doing it!!!!
Mind-boggling stuff.
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Pretty faaaaaast if yo're standing on it.
- ok 16km x 3.14 @ 716 times per second = 35 971 km per second
This is almost 2.2 milion kilometeres a minute.
Which is per hour.... Oh oh calculator just maxed out and came up with an 'E'.
Are we getting into relatvistic issues here?