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Re: (meteorobs) Fwd: How fast do Meteors go?

Oops!  Thanks for the catch.
----- Original Message -----
From: LARGEEYES@aol.com
To: meteorobs@jovian.com
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.
----- 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...
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