Table of Contents
How long does it take for light to travel 10 billion miles?
9.27 hours
Light does travel over 10 billions km in 33356 sec, which is the duration of 9.27 hours, or 0.386 day. Considering an average of 365.25 days per year, 0.386 day is equivalent to 0.00106 year… Billions of miles away from earth that’s science fiction for yeah.
How long does light take to travel 11.5 billion miles?
Voyager 2 is located about 11.5 billion miles (18.5 billion kilometers) away. “Communications traveling at the speed of light take about 17 hours to reach the spacecraft, and it takes another 17 hours for a response from the spacecraft to return to Earth,” NASA said in a statement on Tuesday.
How would you describe a billion?
A billion is a number with two distinct definitions:
- 1,000,000,000, i.e. one thousand million, or 109 (ten to the ninth power), as defined on the short scale. This is now the meaning in all English dialects.
- 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the long scale.
What planet is 11 billion miles from Earth?
Voyager 2
At a distance of about 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from Earth — well beyond the orbit of Pluto — Voyager 2 had entered interstellar space, or the region between stars.
How do you quantify a billion?
The USA meaning of a billion is a thousand million, or one followed by nine noughts (1,000,000,000).
How do you identify millions and billions?
Billions
- One billion is a thousand millions.
- One billion is a 1 with nine zeros after it, denoted by 1,000,000,000.
- One billion seconds is about 32 years.
- One billion pennies stacked on top of each other would make a tower almost 870 miles high.
How long would it take to amass one billion dollars?
One billion seconds is about 31 and a half years. One billion pennies stacked on top of each other would make a tower almost 870 miles high. If you earn $45,000 a year, it would take 22,000 years to amass a fortune of one billion dollars.
How long would it take to travel across the Solar System?
It would take an airliner more than 20 years to fly that distance — and that’s just a one-way ticket. (That’s traveling at about 400 mph or 644 kilometers per hour.) In an effort to bring these vast distances down to Earth, we’ve shrunk the solar system down to the size of a football field.
What is the difference between 1 million and 1 billion mm?
1 millimiter is 1 mm (pretty tiny) 1 million mm is a kilometer (down the street) 1 billion mm is a 1000 km (600 miles — partway across the country) 1 trillion mm is 1,000,000 km (Going around the world 25 times, almost as wide as the Sun)
How big is a trillion?
For most of us (myself included), millions, billions and trillions are “big”. It’s not intuitively obvious that a trillion is actually a million squared — that is, a trillion makes 1 million look imperceptible. Yowza. Do you feel the staggering difference between a trillion and a million? Between a billion and a million? Again, see the difference?