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Chapter 25, Problem 11P
If the velocity of the solar wind is about 4.0 × 102 km/s and the visible tail of a comet is 1.0 × 108 km long, how many days does an atom in the solar wind take to travel from the nucleus to the end of the visible tail? (Nate: 1 day = 86,400 seconds.)
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