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It depends on the frame of reference (where it is).On Earth a body on a table is still rotating around the centre of the Earth. This implies a change of direction and thus having a velocity around the centre and an acceleration acceleration due to centripetal force that makes a body follow a curved path.

Eben without this the body is orbiting the sun with the same impact

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An object at rest has by definition zero velocity. However, because an object at rest on a table is maintaining its zero velocity, it must also have zero acceleration.

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