It should be easy enough to calculate as long as the speed of light is known - maybe that would have been a better question i think it's 186,000 miles per second.
2007-06-18 07:54:50 · 20 answers · asked by Silver Birch 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
I broke down the long answers to the distance of a light year on another question like this. That person wanted to know how long a light minute was, a light hour, a light day, a light week, a light month and a light year. i even threw in what an AU was for good measure. this time i feel lazy though. in the time it took you to type this question, you could have did the math on a calculator yourself.
2007-06-18 08:38:02 · answer #1 · answered by Nunna Yorz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
186,000 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 = Miles per Light Year
2007-06-18 15:24:35 · answer #2 · answered by zahbudar 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light travels about 186,000 miles in a second. In a year there are 365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60 seconds Multiplying that out gives : 5,868,714,000,000 miles
2016-05-18 22:34:49 · answer #3 · answered by sheree 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If light travels about 186,000 miles per second then:
186,000 x 60 = 11,160,000
(how far light goes in a second multiplied by seconds in a minute)
11,160,00 x 60 = 669,600,000
(how far light goes in a minute multiplied by minutes in an hour)
669,600,000 x 24= 16,070,400,000
(how far light goes in an hour multiplied by hours in a day)
16,070,400,000 x 365= 5,865,696,000,000
(how far light goes in a day multiplied by days in a year)
Your answer: Light travels about five trillion, eight-hundred sixty-five billion, six-hundred ninety-six million miles in a year.
Your exact answer is 5,878,625,373,183.61 miles (five trillion, eight hundred seventy-eight billion, six hundred twenty-five million, three hundred seventy-three thousand, one hundred eighty three point six one miles) in a year. On the top I was just showing you how its done.
2007-06-18 08:31:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes. 186.000 miles per sec for 1 year = 1 light year!
5.874.601.766.400 miles = 1 light year
2007-06-18 08:00:52 · answer #5 · answered by johnfrancis 01 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
1 light year = 5.87849981 × 1012 miles
give or take....*lol*
To quote and old T-shirt...
"186,282. miles per second. Not just a good idea...it's the law."
2007-06-18 08:04:19 · answer #6 · answered by notsosuremt 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one light year equals approximately 6 X 10^12 miles......
*personally, I prefer kilometres, but none of you americans care about the perfect metric system.....sigh*
2007-06-18 08:36:10 · answer #7 · answered by Delynn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The distance light travels in a year
2007-06-18 08:03:25 · answer #8 · answered by jeanne 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Well if the speed of light is 186000 meters per second... how many seconds are in a year?
2007-06-18 07:58:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
If you take a light second to be 186,282.4 miles, and a year to be 365.25 days, then you get 5,874,598,262,400 miles.
2007-06-18 08:03:53 · answer #10 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋