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| Author: | Maverick [ Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Trivial outer space stat of the week. |
The Voyager 1 probe was launched in 1977 to take a look at the farther reaches of the solar system. It's been moving at 38,000 MPH (that's about 11 miles every second) for a period of 35 years and 5 months which means it's more than 11 Billion miles from earth. How far is that in space distances you ask? In light years it's about 16 hours. That's 2/10s of 1% of a light year. It will need another 2,200 years to reach the nearest star. Another 13 million years to reach the nearest galaxy. |
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