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Using speed measurements of the gas at different distances from the Galactic center, the Sun appears to be cruising along at 200 kilometers per second and it takes 240 million years to complete the grand circuit around the Galaxy. This speed is an absolute speed.
This boils down to the difference between speed in the traditional (meters per second) sense, and angular speed (how fast something goes around). Person A: The earth orbits the sun at a distance of 150 million km, completing just under 1 billion km in a year - that's about 100,000 km/h.