Originally Posted by
Iceblitz
Is this the exact math? I am curious to so how long it would actaully take to get to us, anyone up for the challenge?
Well it's 670,000 Light years away..
1 Light year =
5.87849981 з 10^12 miles
That's about 5,878,499,810,000 (5Trillion, 878 billion, 499 million)
Note : i dunno what the last 4 digits are, so this is a rough estimate. Google ftw?
670,000 x 5,878,499,810,000 = 3.93859487 з 10^18 or..
3,938,594,870,000,000,000 miles it has to travel to reach our galaxy.
If it's traveling 670,000 miles per HOUR
3,938,594,870,000,000,000 / 670,000 = 5.87849981 з 10^12
5,878,499,810,000 hours of travel, divided by 24 for total days..
24,493,749,200 days of travel divided by 365 for total years
67,106,162.2 years of travel
...or 67 106.1622 millenniums
so yeah, I wouldn't worry about it.
Oh and this is even assuming it's heading directly for us, in a straight line.
Last edited by 2worlds; May 31, 2010 at 02:42 AM.