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To: Diogenesis
Asteroid Gaspra, approx. 20 km long.

Now there is a measurement I can understand! I'm still trying to figure out just how long a light year is. I wish there was an easier definition for it besides the mathematical one.

16 posted on 10/30/2002 10:35:27 PM PST by DBtoo
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If you had a car that could go 186,000 miles in one second, (the speed of light) and you drove it for a year without stopping, you would go one light year. It's a distance, not a time measurement.

A very long distance!
21 posted on 10/31/2002 4:16:58 AM PST by ovrtaxt
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