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To: BenLurkin

Our fastest traveling probe to-date is New Horizons, clocking 36,000 Mph.

If New Horizons were pointed at the Epsilon Eridani system, it would do a fly-by approximately 190,000 years from now.

That’s how far away 10 light years is.


10 posted on 05/07/2017 11:13:11 AM PDT by samtheman (Trump++)
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To: samtheman

Send it for a flyby and back. I can wait.


25 posted on 11/23/2018 12:49:59 PM PST by Redcitizen (I don't always lurk, but when I do, Freerepublic.)
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