Re: How Long would it take for a spaceship to travel to the sun?

JRS: In article <4l6u3eFj5nmU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dated Fri, 25 Aug 2006
01:21:31 remote, seen in news:uk.sci.astronomy, Tim Duke
<tim.duke@xxxxxxxxx> posted :

"Birdle" <Birdle.2d2fln@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Birdle.2d2fln@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi I'm new here and just signed up. For extra credit my science teacher
asked us "How long would it take for someone to go to the nearest star?"
I already knew that the nearest star was the sun. Remember, I want to
know how long it would take to get there not how many miles it is.

If the ship drops from a body's orbit, affected only by the primary,
then about 0.177 of the year of that body. See "Jupiter V".


All depends on how fast you want to travel.

Use google to find out how far the sun is from us, then use the formulae:

time = distance / speed

where distance is in miles and speed is in miles per hour (time will be in
hours).

BAD - it should be done in metres and seconds !!!

ISTM most unlikely that any ship would travel to the Sun at constant
speed, unless that speed is the speed of light, in which case about 8.5
minutes external time and zero internal time.

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