Suppose We Wish to Travel to the Nearest Star Using

question 42

Multiple Choice

Suppose we wish to travel to the nearest star using a super space ship capable of traveling at 300 km/s or about one million km/hour or about 26 million km/day or 10 billion km/yr.We have nothing even close to this space ship yet.How long will it take us to get to the nearest star which is about 4 x10¹³ km away from us?

• A) 4 years
• B) 400 years
• C) 4000 years
• D) 4 billion years

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