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Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 5:09 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Fwd: How fast do
Meteors go?
In a message dated
5/7/01 4:54:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
SKaplan@Lakesideglobal.com
writes:
However, the king of speed is light, which travels 70 times
faster than the fastest meteors - 11,160,000 m.p.h., which is 186,000
miles
per second. If you turn on a powerful light on the moon, it
will take just
one and a half seconds to be seen on Earth.
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Original Message -----
The speed of light is 11,160,000
Miles per minute. You need to multiply that
by another 60 to get per
hour. For example, it takes light about 8 minutes
to travel the
90,000,000 miles to earth from the sun. The true speed is
about
669,000,000mph in a vacuum of course...