DISTANCE CHART

Radar and Radio Communications

Light, electricity and radar waves, being the fastest thing we know today, travel at the approximate velocity of 186,282 miles per second. The following graph indicates the time involved for these waves to reach their objective, if you were to communicate, in this manner from Earth.

PLANETS

TIME LAPSE

GALAXIES

TIME LAPSE

Mercury

4 1/2 Minutes

Andromeda

1.500,000 Lgt. Yrs.

Venus

2 Min. 18 Secs.

Alpha Centuri

4 Yrs., 4 Mo., 7 Days

Mars

4 Min., 21 Secs.

    

Jupiter

35 Min., 11 Secs.

Our Sun

7 Min., 59 Secs.

Saturn

1 Hr. 11 Sec.

Moon

1.23 Sec.

Uranus

2 Hrs., 32 Min.

    

Neptune

4 Hrs., 2 Min.

To calculate time for your answer return multiply time indicated by two.

Pluto

6 Hrs., 25 Min.

     

Equatorial Diameter Earth = 1 or 7,926.4 miles

0.38

0.95

1

0.53

11.19

9.5

3.7

3.9

0.5

Mass (Earth = 1)

0.06

0.82

1

0.11

317.9

95.1

14.5

17.3

0.18

Volume (Earth = 1)

0.06

0.82

1

0.15

131.8

76.9

50

59

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Density (Water = 1)

5.50

5.27

5.52

3.95

1.33

0.69

1.7

1.6

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Equatorial Surface Gravity (Earth = 1)

0.39

0.91

1

0.38

2.31

0.88

1

1.1

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Number of Satellites

0

0

1

2

12

10

5

2

0

Rotation on Axis (compared to earth time)

Days 58.65

Days 2.43

Day 1

Days 1.03

Hours 9.93

Hours 10.23

Hours 10.8

Hours 15.8

Days 6.39

Revolutions Around Sun (compared to earth time)

Days 88

Days 224.7

Years 1

Years 1.88

Years 11.86

Years 29.46

Years 84.01

Years 164.1

Years 247

Mean Distance from Sun Earth = 1 or 92,956,524 miles

0.39

0.72

1

1.52

5.20

9.52

19.16

29.99

39.37