How Long it Takes for the Sun to Orbit the Milky Way
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It takes approximately 225 million Earth years for our solar system to make one trip around the Milky Way.
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Which means that the alleged asteroid credited to the demise/extinction of the dinosaur population, approximately 65m years ago . . . occured during an extremely short instance in our ‘rotation’ around the galactic center.
It happened at least once previously; It will happen again.
It’s a given …