What is the velocity center of mass

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The Earth is 1.5 × 1011 m from the Sun and takes a year to make one complete orbit. It rotates on its own axis once per day. It can be treated approximately as a uniform-density sphere of mass 6 × 1024 kg and radius 6.4 × 106 m (actually, its center has higher density than the rest of the planet, and the Earth bulges out a bit at the equator). Using this crude approximation, calculate the following. What is the velocity center of mass?

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