Earth-like planet just 12 light-years away

Re:Earth-like planet just 12 light-years away by jebblue on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @12:45AM (#4941341)

If I did my calculations right then at 17,000 mph it would take 474,568.57 years to get there.

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Re:Earth-like planet just 12 light-years away by technotony on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @01:02AM (#4941396)

After a journey that long, it would be a bit of a downer if the planet turned out to just have been noise!

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Re:Earth-like planet just 12 light-years away by tomcon on Wednesday December 19, 2012 @04:28AM (#4941825)

Considering that is not even reaching Earth's (surface) escape velocity, the duration should not be a problem. The pioneer probes are doing about twice that now, the Helios probes come closer to 9x that at their closest approaches to the sun.

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