Voyager 1 is one of the most distant and fastest moving human made objects as measured from Earth. It was launched in 1977 and is only now reaching the “edge” of the solar system. At this same speed, about how long would it take Voyager 1 to reach Alpha Centauri? (Hint: First find the average speed of Voyager 1 in “A.U. per year”). My model is attatched here :) Show your work here if you can, thanks so much :)
Voyager 1 is one of the most distant and fastest moving human made objects as measured from Earth. It was launched in 1977 and is only now reaching the “edge” of the solar system. At this same speed, about how long would it take Voyager 1 to reach Alpha Centauri? (Hint: First find the average speed of Voyager 1 in “A.U. per year”). My model is attatched here :) Show your work here if you can, thanks so much :)
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Voyager 1 is one of the most distant and fastest moving human made objects as measured from Earth. It was launched in 1977 and is only now reaching the “edge” of the solar system. At this same speed, about how long would it take Voyager 1 to reach Alpha Centauri? (Hint: First find the average speed of Voyager 1 in “A.U. per year”). My model is attatched here :) Show your work here if you can, thanks so much :)
![Object
Distance from Sun
kilometers A. U.
Light
Scale Distance:
travel
1 A.U.= 10
cm
time(min)
5.80 х 107
1.08 x 108
1.50 x 108
2.24 x 10^8
Mercury
0.40
3.32 min
4
Venus
0.72
5.98 min
7.2
Earth
1.00
8.3 min
10
Mars
1.5
12.45 min
15
Ceres (asteroid) | 4.19 x 10$
Jupiter
2.8
23.24 min
28
7.78 x 108
5.2
43.16 min
52
Saturn
1.42 x 10^9
9.51
78.93 min
95.1
Uranus
2.86 x 10^9
19.1
158.53 min
191
4.50 x 10°
249.83 min
Neptune
Halley's comet 4.98 x 10^9
Pluto
30.1
301
33.3
276.39 min
333
5.90 x 10°
2.15 x 1010
39.44
327.35 min
394.4
Voyager 1
Alpha Centauri | 4.13 x 1013 | 275466 |2,286,368 min
143
1,187min
1,430
2,754,660](/v2/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcontent.bartleby.com%2Fqna-images%2Fquestion%2F8a60eb61-8719-4173-b6e8-83ed3b97c4e8%2F53882fff-4fb5-4209-b33f-cad0a0619866%2F5hpvlbn_processed.png&w=3840&q=75)
Transcribed Image Text:Object
Distance from Sun
kilometers A. U.
Light
Scale Distance:
travel
1 A.U.= 10
cm
time(min)
5.80 х 107
1.08 x 108
1.50 x 108
2.24 x 10^8
Mercury
0.40
3.32 min
4
Venus
0.72
5.98 min
7.2
Earth
1.00
8.3 min
10
Mars
1.5
12.45 min
15
Ceres (asteroid) | 4.19 x 10$
Jupiter
2.8
23.24 min
28
7.78 x 108
5.2
43.16 min
52
Saturn
1.42 x 10^9
9.51
78.93 min
95.1
Uranus
2.86 x 10^9
19.1
158.53 min
191
4.50 x 10°
249.83 min
Neptune
Halley's comet 4.98 x 10^9
Pluto
30.1
301
33.3
276.39 min
333
5.90 x 10°
2.15 x 1010
39.44
327.35 min
394.4
Voyager 1
Alpha Centauri | 4.13 x 1013 | 275466 |2,286,368 min
143
1,187min
1,430
2,754,660
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Since 1977 the number of years passed are 2021 – 1977 years = 44 years.
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