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To: nickcarraway

Cut him some slack, he obviously meant to say 415 light years.


60 posted on 04/07/2017 5:32:48 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: Kenny500c

He was only off by a factor of a million. I just checked with the astronomy website Heavens-Above.com.


66 posted on 04/07/2017 6:07:02 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary: The REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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To: Kenny500c

For those that don’t know, a 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.At its current distance of about 415 million miles, Jupiter is roughly 37 light-minutes from Earth.


75 posted on 04/07/2017 6:32:42 PM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary: The REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
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