Calculate the wind speed at the edge of Neptune's Great Dark Spot, which was 10,000 km in diameter and rotated in 17 days

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27. Calculate the wind speed at the edge of Neptune's Great Dark Spot, which was 10,000 km
in diameter and rotated in 17 days. (Hint: recall a circle circumference=2 x pie x radius).

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