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Originally posted by Szass-Tam:
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Originally posted by Ziroc:
Its gonna be a fast launch craft! It'll be past the moon in 9 hrs and to Pluto in 2015! That is FAST!
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I don't think we realise quite how fast.
If it arrives on 16th Jan 2015, in 78840 hours, and Pluto is at closest 2,700,000,000 miles away, then that rocket is doing:
34246 miles per hour
571 miles per minute
9.5 miles per second
wow. [/QUOTE]To put that in perspective, a jet flying across the atlantic ocean flies at approximately 550 mph, and takes 8 hours or so from Detroit to Paris. In this critter, it'd be there in about 8 minutes....
The Concord only went about 2000 MPH or thereabouts... still far, far slower.
W.O.W.