How many years that get the Voyager 1 to go to Proxima centauri?

Answer 1

Speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second

There are 31,356,000 seconds in a year of 365 days ie not a leap year.

A light year is therefore 9,454,254,955,488,000 metres

Mach 1 is not constant as it depends on atmospheric composition and temperature but for this calculation I am using 340.29 metres per second.

At Mach1 it would take 27,782,935,012,748 seconds to travel 1 light year.

In more manageable terms this is 880,991 years.

I hope this helps - it made my brain ache !!!

Answer 2

Proxima Centauri - Earth ... 4,223 l.y. (267 070 astronomical units)

Voyager 1 speed: 3,58 AU/year

267 070 / 3,58 = 74 600 years (1977)

74 565 years (2012)

Voyager 1 (current distance from Earth is 119 - 120 AU) will reach Proxima Centauri in 74 565 years.

Answer 3

Ooh. Long time. In 35 years, V2 has only gotten about 15 light-minutes away. A back of the envelope calculation suggests that another 1.2 million years ought to do it.

Edit :It's a lot more than 15 light minutes away. Jupiter is further than that.

Answer 4

It doesn't make sense to convert that; mph is a unit of speed; whereas light-year is a unit of distance.

Answer 5

At 150000 miles per hour, it would take 39.2 million years to travel one light year.

Answer 6

Voyager 1 would take approximately 73,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun, as it is currently traveling at a speed of about 17 kilometers per second away from the Sun.

Answer 7

in 17,535 years.

Answer 8

37,256.5 years.