We Have Sent Several Spacecraft on Trajectories That Will Ultimately

question 69

Multiple Choice

We have sent several spacecraft on trajectories that will ultimately take them into interstellar space (Pioneer 10 and 11,Voyager 1 and 2,New Horizons) .How long will it take these spacecraft to travel as far as the nearest stars?

• A)a few decades
• B)a few hundred years
• C)about a thousand years
• D)tens of thousands of years

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