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To: BigEdLB

Hell, 6 light years may as well be right down the street.


7 posted on 11/14/2018 10:58:18 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: Tenacious 1

Less than 2 parsecs!

New Horizons travels at around 36,373 mph. One light-year is 5.87849981 × 10 12 miles. (That’s 5,878,499,810,000 miles, or nearly 6 trillion miles). So, it would take New Horizons 18,449 years to travel one light year.

Times 6.


9 posted on 11/14/2018 11:01:21 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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