If Speed of Sun's motion through space (828,000 km/h) was a standard unit ...
Speed of a bullet (3,300 km/h)...more would be 1/250 of Speed of Sun's motion through space
Speed of Earth's rotation around its own axis, at ground level at the equator (1,675 km/h)...more would be 1/500 of Speed of Sun's motion through space
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