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Interstellar Trip Planner
How long would it take to get to the moon on a train or to Saturn in a car.? Complete
the chart to find out how long it would take you to get to the celestial object traveling
at the given speed.
(Hint, the first: For MPH, divide the distance by the MPH. That will give you the hours
you travel. Divide that by 24 to get the days, and then divide your answer by 7 to get
the weeks. Round the week to the first decimal point [19.19 = 19.2].)
(Hint, the Second: For miles per second, divide the distance by the miles per second
you are traveling. That will give you miles per second. Divide that by 60 to get miles
per minute. Divide that to give you miles per hour. Round the hour to the first decimal
point [19.19 = 19.2].)
Automobile
60 mph
Moon
Distance:
220,968 miles
Mars
Distance: (minimum)
54,000,000 km
Saturn
Distance: (minimum)
1,195,000,000 km
Proxima Centauri
(closest star)
Distance: 4.28 light-years
40,000,000,000,000 km
Epsilon Andromedae
(closest planetary system)
Distance:
10.3 light-years;
100,000,000,000,000 km
Bullet Train
180 mph
Boeing 757
600 mph
Voyager
10.5 miles per
second (mps)
Starship
186,000 mps
Answer Key
Bullet
Automobile
train 180
60 mph
mph
Boeing
757 600
mph
Voyager 17
km/second
10.5 miles/sec
Starship lightspeed (186,282
miles per
second)
Moon
Distance:
220,968 miles
21 weeks, 7
days
7 weeks,
19 days
2 days
Mars
Distance:
(minimum)
33.8 million miles
54.5 million km
65 years
21.7
years
6.5 years 37 days
Saturn
Distance:
(minimum)
741.2 million miles
1,195.5 million km
1,410 years
470
years
141 years
2 years, 3
months
1 hour, 6
minutes
Proxima Centauri
(closest star)
Distance:
4.28 light-years 25
trillion miles
40 trillion km
50 million
years
16.7
million
years
5 million
years
76,000 years
4.28 years
Epsilon
Andromedae
(closest planetary
system)
Distance:
10.3 light-years
110 million
years
36.7
million
years
11 million
180,000 years
years
5 hours, 50
minutes
1.2 seconds
3 minutes
10.3 years