How Long would it take for a spaceship to travel to the sun?

Hi I'm new here and just signed up. For extra credit my science teacher asked us "How long would it take for someone to go to the nearest star?" I already knew that the nearest star was the sun. Remember, I want to know how long it would take to get there not how many miles it is.

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Hi I'm new here and just signed up. For extra credit my science teacher
asked us "How long would it take for someone to go to the nearest star?"
I already knew that the nearest star was the sun. Remember, I want to
know how long it would take to get there not how many miles it is.


Remember, your teacher expected you to work it out for yourself.

Birdle wrote:

Hi I'm new here and just signed up. For extra credit my science teacher
asked us "How long would it take for someone to go to the nearest star?"
I already knew that the nearest star was the sun. Remember, I want to
know how long it would take to get there not how many miles it is.

117.4 days.


Tim

"Birdle" wrote in message
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Hi I'm new here and just signed up. For extra credit my science teacher
asked us "How long would it take for someone to go to the nearest star?"
I already knew that the nearest star was the sun. Remember, I want to
know how long it would take to get there not how many miles it is.


33.1275934532395747203058675473937 minutes ?


All depends on how fast you want to travel.

Use google to find out how far the sun is from us, then use the formulae:

time = distance / speed

where distance is in miles and speed is in miles per hour (time will be in
hours).

Tim Duke wrote:
"Birdle" wrote in message
...

Hi I'm new here and just signed up. For extra credit my science
teacher asked us "How long would it take for someone to go to the
nearest star?" I already knew that the nearest star was the sun.
Remember, I want to know how long it would take to get there not how
many miles it is.
33.1275934532395747203058675473937 minutes ?


All depends on how fast you want to travel.

Use google to find out how far the sun is from us, then use the
formulae:
time = distance / speed

where distance is in miles and speed is in miles per hour (time will
be in hours).

Don't forget about acceleration, and what max G the human (assuming you are)
body can withstand. And what does "go to the nearest star" mean? Does your
teacher expect you to land on this star too?
You'd better get your answer in quick, else some astronomical body might
demote our Sun to something less than a star!

Birdle wrote:

Hi I'm new here and just signed up. For extra credit my science teacher
asked us "How long would it take for someone to go to the nearest star?"
I already knew that the nearest star was the sun. Remember, I want to
know how long it would take to get there not how many miles it is.

Not very long if you cycle. The first part is pretty steep, but after
that you can freewheel the whole way downhill.

I'm told there aren't any bicycle racks when you get there.

FoFP

Birdle wrote:
Hi I'm new here and just signed up. For extra credit my science teacher
asked us "How long would it take for someone to go to the nearest star?"
I already knew that the nearest star was the sun. Remember, I want to
know how long it would take to get there not how many miles it is.


From where?

M Holmes wrote:
Birdle wrote:


Hi I'm new here and just signed up. For extra credit my science teacher
asked us "How long would it take for someone to go to the nearest star?"
I already knew that the nearest star was the sun. Remember, I want to
know how long it would take to get there not how many miles it is.


Not very long if you cycle. The first part is pretty steep, but after
that you can freewheel the whole way downhill.

I'm told there aren't any bicycle racks when you get there.

FoFP

If you do it at night it's all downhill!

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Regards

Nick

Nick Mason wrote:
M Holmes wrote:

Birdle wrote:


Hi I'm new here and just signed up. For extra credit my science teacher
asked us "How long would it take for someone to go to the nearest star?"
I already knew that the nearest star was the sun. Remember, I want to
know how long it would take to get there not how many miles it is.



Not very long if you cycle. The first part is pretty steep, but after
that you can freewheel the whole way downhill.

I'm told there aren't any bicycle racks when you get there.

FoFP

If you do it at night it's all downhill!

and you don't run the danger to get burned by the heat or radiation of
the sun! ;-)

Claudio Grondi

JRS: In article , dated Fri, 25 Aug 2006
01:21:31 remote, seen in news:uk.sci.astronomy, Tim Duke
posted :

"Birdle" wrote in message
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Hi I'm new here and just signed up. For extra credit my science teacher
asked us "How long would it take for someone to go to the nearest star?"
I already knew that the nearest star was the sun. Remember, I want to
know how long it would take to get there not how many miles it is.

If the ship drops from a body's orbit, affected only by the primary,
then about 0.177 of the year of that body. See "Jupiter V".


All depends on how fast you want to travel.

Use google to find out how far the sun is from us, then use the formulae:

time = distance / speed

where distance is in miles and speed is in miles per hour (time will be in
hours).

BAD - it should be done in metres and seconds !!!

ISTM most unlikely that any ship would travel to the Sun at constant
speed, unless that speed is the speed of light, in which case about 8.5
minutes external time and zero internal time.

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