RE: Pinhole Digest #310 Solar Year

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From: J. G. Locke (lockejg@redshift.com)
Date: Tue Dec 14 1999 - 05:46:42 PST 

From: "J. G. Locke" <lockejg@redshift.com>
Subject: RE: Pinhole Digest #310 Solar Year
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 1999 05:46:42 -0800
Message-ID: <000001bf4639$a7459a60$2030c8d8@daddysmachine>

||
|| Hi all,
||
|| Me again. Anybody know how long it takes the sun to
|| orbit the center of the galaxy? I couldn't find it in
|| the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics.
||
|| -Marc
||

200 million years, at a speed of 240 km/s
This from "Investigating the Earth", Houghton Mifflin Co. 1987, page 498.

John

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