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Post by Radrook Admin on May 23, 2019 21:44:30 GMT -5
New Horizon Spacecraft Velocity The New Horizons spacecraft, which sent us beautful photos of Pluto, is now 4.1 billion miles (6.6 billion kilometers) from Earth speeding deeper into the Kuiper Belt at nearly 33,000 miles (53,000 kilometers) per hour. To get an idea of just how fast that really is, please note that a 25-06 bullet leaves the muzzle at 2,700 miles an hour. Which means that The new Horizon is traveling 12.2 times faster than this. To match The New Horizon’s speed, we would have to increase that bullet’s velocity twelve times. At that velocity it covers a distance of approx 792,000 miles per day. The moons’s distance from Earth average is 250,000 miles. So The New Horizons travels the equivalent of approx 3 1/2 Earth to Moon distances each day. 21 average Earth-to-moon distances per week. 105 Earth-to-moon distances per month. 1, 260 Earth-to-moon distances per year. Yet universal distances are so vast that the speed of light, which covers 186,000 miles in one second, is considered slow.
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