If the Sun is 4.6 billion years old, how many times has it orbited the Milky Way galaxy?
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If the Sun is 4.6 billion years old, how many times has it orbited the Milky Way galaxy? (The Sun is 8,300 pc from the center of the Milky Way, and orbits the center at a speed of 225 km/s.)
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