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To: Olog-hai

Light time between the earth and moon.

The New Horizons spacecraft is currently about 3 hours and 25 light minutes from earth.

9 posted on 10/14/2012 4:47:25 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)

To: cripplecreek

Light time between the earth and moon.

Is about 1-1/4 seconds.

14 posted on 10/14/2012 5:47:16 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)

To: cripplecreek

The New Horizons spacecraft is currently about 3 hours and 25 light minutes from earth.

For those who aren't aware, one light-second is about 186,000 miles.

So that's 186,000 x 60secs x 60mins x ~3.5 (miles). = 2,343,600,000 miles (~2.3 billion miles)

15 posted on 10/14/2012 5:54:42 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)

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