To: Dallas59
>>>Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is currently 8.6 billion miles (13.8 billion km) from Earth
If I did the math correctly
0.0014629270371999592 Light Years in 33 years.
And the next closest star is Alpha Centauri, at about 4.37 light-years distant.
28 posted on
05/08/2010 7:17:53 AM PDT by
tlb
To: tlb
0.0014629270371999592 Light Years in 33 years. And the next closest star is Alpha Centauri, at about 4.37 light-years distant. So it would take Voyager... um, carry the one... a little less than a hundred thousand years to reach Alpha Centauri? If it were even going that direction...
31 posted on
05/08/2010 7:42:14 AM PDT by
Sloth
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To: tlb
Re: Voyager 2 spacecraft, which is currently 8.6 billion miles from Earth
If I did the math correctly:
[8.6 billion miles = ] 0.0014629270371999592 Light Years (in 33 years).
Well, one light year, the distance light travels in a year at its constant speed of 186,000 miles per second, works out to about 5.9 trillion miles.
And so,
8.6 divided by 5,900 = 0.0014
So you are correct.
32 posted on
05/08/2010 7:45:00 AM PDT by
ETL
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To: tlb
Because Voyager 2 is so far from Earth, it takes 13 hours for a message As a message travel at the speed of light it a "Light 13 hours" out...
50 posted on
05/08/2010 12:33:04 PM PDT by
tophat9000
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