To: markomalley
"The fast-moving New Horizons spacecraft is now approximately 74 million miles beyond the Pluto system"And Pluto is roughly 3 billion miles from Earth. So even if you could travel at light speed (186,000 miles/sec), it would still take you about 4-1/2 hours to get there.
2 posted on
10/25/2015 6:55:38 PM PDT by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: markomalley
In terms of the outrageous distances involved in interstellar and intergalactic space, this baby hasn’t even left the room.
3 posted on
10/25/2015 7:30:34 PM PDT by
4Runner
To: markomalley
“The first maneuver took place on October 22, using two of the spacecraft’s small hydrazine-fueled thrusters.”
Hey! I got a mention!
Wahoo!
5 posted on
10/25/2015 8:31:55 PM PDT by
Jack Hydrazine
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