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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]Yep! Faster than a bullet. Yeh, when I heard how soon it would be, I was like "WOW! thats a blink of an eye cosmologically speaking! It's gonna use Jupiter to slingshot as well, to pick up some speed.