i dont want measuremants and i dont want to know how many miles light travels in a second and i do nt want to calculate anything i also want to know the speed of our fastest space craft. please i want an exact answer like maybe 25 years or 50 years 0r a hundred years and i want it to be in earth years.
2007-10-27 08:31:23 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
new horizons is our fastest ship, but it reaches its top speed with a gravity assist with Jupiter. 36,260 mph
its on its way to Pluto as we speak
approximately 37,760 years to travel 119,923,957,612,945 miles
oh and its Gliese 581 (i calculated the distance to the star, not the planet, but thats close enough)
2007-10-27 08:36:43 · answer #1 · answered by Mercury 2010 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
"...want to know the speed of our fastest space craft..."
New Horizons probe to Pluto currently moving at 36,345.25 mph
"...how many earh years would it take to get to gelies 581c..."
Gliese 581c is some 20 light years from Earth.
20 ly = 1.1757^14 miles
1.1757^14 miles / 36,345.25 mph = 369,270.7192 years to reach Gliese 581c
2007-10-27 09:44:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gliese, not "gelies"! It's 20 light-years away, so it will probably take about a century to develop the technology to send a bag of frozen human embryos there. Then it will take another millennium for the package to arrive, and another century for the automated baby factory and prerecorded education system to turn the embryos into a colony of humans.
2007-10-27 08:55:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
given an unlimited amount of gas, my Ford Pinto at 54 mph could get there in a little under 25 million years.
oh, i would need a road ... and lots of diapers
2007-10-27 09:36:56 · answer #4 · answered by Faesson 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, if you leave after tonights world series game. It would take you 2,340,000 years at 50,000 miles per hour.
2007-10-27 12:23:15 · answer #5 · answered by Tinman12 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋