On Monday 06 October 2003 05:51 pm, Jason Holt wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Ross Werner wrote: > > > > You don't think they were moving the Mars Rover in real time do you? > > Looks like Mars round trip times (RTTs) are 6-40 minutes. Thus the rovers > tend to move in inches per minute. > > The sun's about 3 light minutes away.
*Jake marks -10 off on Ross's physics quiz* For full credit, your answer should be: The distance from the Earth to the Sun varies because the Earth's orbit about the Sun is elliptical.At it's closest, the distance is 91,402,000 miles and it's farthest distance it is 94,512,000 miles.This gives an average distance of 92,957,000 miles. Light travels at 186,282 miles per second. Dividing the average distance by the speed of light gives 499.01225 seconds which is 8.3168708 minutes. -- Jacob Albretsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
