Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Random Fact - Pluto

Sunlight takes 5 ½ hours to reach Pluto.



The speed of light is 186,287 miles per second. It only takes 499 seconds (a little over 8 minutes) for light to travel from the Sun to Earth. You get a broad idea of just how large our solar system is when you think about it in this way:

186,287 miles/second x 5 ½ hours (330 seconds) = 61,474,710 miles to Pluto from the Sun!
(NASA)

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