Hi List,
Sputnik is now 50! Time flys. What does this have
to do with meteorites?...much more than you might
first think!...it totally changed our history and this
One Step for Mankind will continue to lead to our
future (survival/destruction) as well.
Congrats to the dedicated
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 04:15:35 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
Sputnik is now 50! Time flys. What does this have
to do with meteorites?
Sputnik became a meteor in the end...
BTW how far into space has Sputnik`s message now
traveled after 50years??? Sterling...anyone???
Exactly 50 light-years! What
Dirk:
1 light year = 9.46 X 10^15 meters or 9.46 x 10^12 km. So, in 50 years:
4.7 x 10^14 km (470 trillion kilimeters). That is within range of a lot of
stars.
There are a 100 stars within 7.63 parsecs (almost 25 light years), so if
you double the distance, there are about 800 stars (star
Hi Larry
Damn that is a long way away. Hard to fathom how far away 50 light
years is though.
I wonder what the chances are of the signal directly hitting anyone of
those 800 star/star systems.
It is neat to think that the signal is so far away but unfortunately
the signal would be unrecognizable
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Hi Larry
Damn that is a long way away. Hard to fathom how far away 50 light
years is though.
I wonder
: [meteorite-list] OT: Happy Birthday Sputnik...50
Hi Larry
Damn that is a long way away. Hard to fathom how far away 50 light
years is though. I wonder what the chances are of the signal directly
hitting anyone of those 800 star/star systems.
It is neat to think that the signal is so far away
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 12:33:12 -0700 (MST), you wrote:
Hence the images of Hitler at the opening of the Olympics being picked up
and re-transmitted in Contact. Or I Love Lucy in an episode of Amazing
Stories.
Or when the people of Omicron Persei 8 missed the series finale of Single Female
Lawyer,
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