From: Tory Brady (toryb@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 10:49:32 PDT
Message-Id: <l03110702bb9a2c2ea632@[192.168.112.77]> Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 10:49:32 -0700 From: Tory Brady <toryb@exploratorium.edu> Subject: distance data table
here is the data for different speed/ times to planets and stars mentioned
earlier. Sorry I forgot to attach!
How Big is the Universe?
NASA Information Summary
February, 1988
Destination Time in a Jet Time in a Rocket Time of
Sunbeam
from Earth going~600 mph going~25,000 mph going
186,000 mps
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Moon 16.5 days 9.4 hours 1.2 seconds
Sun 17 yr 8 mo 4 mo 8.5 min
Mercury 10 yr 10 mo 3 mo 5 min
perigee
Venus 5 yr 5 mo 1.5 mo 2.5 min
Mars 8 yr 10 mo 2.5 mo 4 min
Jupiter 74 yr 3 mo 1 yr. 9 mo 35 min
Saturn 150 yr 5 mo 3 yr 7 mo 1 hr 11 min
Uranus 318 yr 6 mo 7 yr 7 mo 2 hr 30 min
Neptune 513 yr 2 mo 12 yr 3 mo 4 hr 2 min
Pluto 690 yr 1 mo 16 yr 5 mo 5 hr 25 min
Alpha Centauri 4.8 million yr 114,155,2 yr 4.2 yr
Sirius 9.6 million yr. 228,310.4 yr 8.4 yr
Pleiades 456 million yr* 10.9 million yr* 400 yr
Crab Nebula 4.56 billion yr* 109 million yr.* 4000 yr
Milky Way Center 42.8 billion yr* 1.03 billion yr* 38,000 yr
Andromeda Galaxy 2.2 million yr.
*Computed from NASA light year values. Please check math.
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