2007-02-20 15:32:17 · 9 answers · asked by mlawrence.jmhs 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Approximately 8.50 minutes. You can figure it out. Light travels at 186,232.3959 miles per second through a vacuum and the Sun is approximately 93,000,000 miles away. Multiply 186,232.3959 by 60 to get miles traveled in a minute. Divide 93,000,000 by what you get for minutes. You should get around 8-1/2 minutes if I did it right myself...
2007-02-20 15:35:40 · answer #1 · answered by christopher s 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
about 8 1/2 light minutes
2007-02-20 16:36:16 · answer #2 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it takes about 8 min for light to reach earth from our sun
2007-02-20 16:30:43 · answer #3 · answered by Christopher S 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
about 8 minutes.
Distance: 1.49 x 10^11 m. Speed of light: 3 x 10^8.
t=d/v. Divide and get the seconds. Divide again by 60 to get minutes.
2007-02-20 15:36:06 · answer #4 · answered by Rob S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The distance between the earth and the sun is 93,000,000 miles.
The time it takes light to travel this distance is 93,000,000
miles/186,000 miles/sec or 500 seconds. Hence the time is 500sec/60 or 8.333 minutes.
2007-02-20 15:42:19 · answer #5 · answered by Scott B 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
about 8 minutes. I answered that one correctly workign it out in my head to my teacher in primary(elementary) school and she said I was wrong.
2007-02-20 15:47:43 · answer #6 · answered by kicking_back 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
500 seconds or around 8.3 minutes
2007-02-20 15:40:29 · answer #7 · answered by bradhurt2003 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It takes eight minutes.
2007-02-20 15:46:38 · answer #8 · answered by Pooj@ 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no one really knows for sure but i know that there is a sch thing as a light year so mabye it takes a year?
2007-02-20 15:41:58 · answer #9 · answered by cutie pie 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋