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The Earth's Orbit. It takes roughly 365 days for the Earth to go around the Sun once. This means that the Earth is rushing through space around the Sun at a rate of about 67,000 miles per hour! The time it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun one full time is what we call a year.
When we're at perehelion (min distance, around January 4th), it takes about 8 mins and 11 secs. Average time: 8 mins and 20 secs. The Sun's rays take 8.3784 minutes to reach the Earth, if you take the average distance between Sun and Earth. Only the Sun's warmth is slower than light, it's warmth takes about a week or two to reach the earth. Time = distance Ã· velocity The solar is approximately a million.496 * 10^11 meters from the earth.