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  • 21-10-2015
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How long will it take light moving at 300,000 km/s to reach us from the sun?

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AL2006
AL2006 AL2006
  • 21-10-2015

The average distance from the sun to the Earth
is about  152 million kilometers.

That's (1.52 x 10⁸ km).

Time to cover the distance = (distance) / (speed)

                   Time = (1.52 x 10⁸ km) / (3 x 10⁵ km/s)

                           =  (506 and 2/3) seconds.

                                 That's 8 minutes 27 seconds .

The popular number is "about 8 minutes".

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