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George Dishman wrote:
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> Hexenmeister wrote:
<snip>
> > http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/operations/saturn-time.cfm
> >
> > "The time it takes for a signal - which moves at the speed of light through
> > space - to travel from the spacecraft to Earth. From Saturn, one-way light
> > time can range from about one hour and 14 minutes to one hour and 24
> > minutes. "
>
> The Earth's orbit is about 10 light minutes across.
Closer to 17 in fact, almost exactly one kilo-light-second. The
quoted times are a fair match to Saturn's perihelion and aphelion
distances[1] respectively; the article doesn't appear to be
considering the Earth's orbit at all. The true range must be more
like 1:07 to 1:32.
1. According to NASA's fact-sheet at
<http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/saturnfact.html>
from which I get Sun-Saturn light-distances of 1:15:09 and 1:24:09.
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Odysseus
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