Assuming that it is correct that the distance from earth to sun in lightyears is about 8 1/2 minutes, (please correct otherwise)
what is the distance from earth to moon in lightyears?
2007-05-09 14:37:42 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
About 1.279 light seconds on average.
Even Pluto is only 5.5 light hours away and you are better off measuring distances within the Solar System in Astronomical Units (AUs) and leave light years for interstellar distances
Light travels at 186,000 miles a second and to go to the moon has to traverse an average of 238,000 miles, Use a calculator and get 1.279 light seconds as a result.
The effect of that 1.3 second delay was evident in conversations between the Apollo astronauts and Mission Control. Their words, even travelling at the speed of light took a finite time to be received in Houston and the same time to be received on board Apollo
2007-05-09 14:51:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Distance From Earth To Moon
2016-09-26 03:27:36 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are asking the question wrong.
"the distance from earth to sun in lightyears is about 8 1/2 minutes" makes no sense, it's like saying "Measured in years, the average TV show is a half-hour".
a light minute is quite different from a light year.
2007-05-09 16:07:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
1.) Light years measures distance 2.) If light years did measure time, 56, 581 billion wouldn't exist, because the galaxy is only 13 billion light years. 3.) Mars gravitational pull can not effect anything in the close vicinity of earth, let alone a god damn moon. 4.) I hope this is a joke, I really do.
2016-03-18 23:20:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Every single part of your question fails. The universe isn't even that old. Light years is a measurement of distance, not time. The Moon is nowhere near Mars. Either is the Moon on Mars.
2016-04-02 07:06:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The distance to the sun is 81/2 light minutes - not light years. The time for light to go from the moon to the earth is roughly 1.3 l seconds. You can figure how many seconds in a year and divide it into the 1.3 to get light years
2007-05-09 14:58:47 · answer #6 · answered by Gene 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Approximately one and a half (1 1/2) seconds.
2007-05-09 14:45:03 · answer #7 · answered by Doctor J 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
1.29 seconds divided by the number of seconds in a year is .00000004055, so that is the amount of light years to the moon. It's very impractical to measure in light years within our own solar system, much less our own moon.
2007-05-09 15:18:59 · answer #8 · answered by kidgid7 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
About a second, EXCEPT in an eclipse.
2007-05-09 18:13:26 · answer #9 · answered by Theban 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
o.oooooooooooooooooooo*5 =900?
2007-05-09 15:07:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋