2006-06-13 14:13:31 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Everyone here has done the math or answered the fundamentals.
To me a light year is one in which I don't have that many problems.
2006-06-13 16:36:20 · answer #1 · answered by Der Lange 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Light travels at a speed of 299,792,458 meters per second, or at approximately 186,282 miles per second, in a vacuum. A light year is defined as the distance a particle of light would travel in a year at this speed. There are 31,536,000 seconds in a 365 day year, so if you multiply that number by 186,282 miles, you will have the distance light would travel in a year. (approximately 5,874,589,152,000 miles) about 6 trillion miles
2006-06-13 14:21:16 · answer #2 · answered by sweeetj99 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light travels at 186,000 miles a second. Calculate that into one year and that will tell you haw far a ight year is, at the speed of light( Warp 1 for Trekkies)
2006-06-13 14:16:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The length that light travels in a year is 6 trillion miles
2006-06-13 14:17:37 · answer #4 · answered by nyeboy9 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A light year is the legnth that light can travel in a year. So about 9460528400000000 meters or 5878499811103.157 miles. Yeah, light's really fast.
2006-06-13 14:20:06 · answer #5 · answered by lilboochiegirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A light year is the distance that light can travel in one year. Since light can travel 300 000 km per second, one light year would be 9.5 trillion kilometres.
2006-06-13 14:17:31 · answer #6 · answered by patronus4000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
how far light travels in one year
2006-06-13 14:40:15 · answer #7 · answered by Jake 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
light travels approximately 186,000 miles per second. a light year is 186,000 x 60 seconds/minute x 60 minutes/hour x 24 hours/day x 365 days/year = 5,865,696,000,000 miles/year.
2006-06-13 14:18:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
light year = the speed of light
light travels at 180,000 miles per hour...
2006-06-13 14:17:06 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it takes like 3 minutes from the sun to the earth,but i dont know how far the earth is from the sun.
2006-06-13 14:17:28 · answer #10 · answered by ◄ZΨΦИ► 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋