how long does it take to get from earth to mercury the planet?
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It would depend on the route you took.  But it would be a trip lasting several months at least, that's for sure.  It took the Mariner 10 spacecraft about five months (146 days) to reach Mercury in 1974.
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The average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,403 kilometers.  Naismith's Rule of Thumb is 5 kilometers/hour.  Assuming the trip from the Earth to the Moon is level, the trip would take 76,880.6 hours (384,403/5) or 3202.4 days or 8.8 years if you traveled 24 hours per day.  If you allow for 6 hours of sleep a day, it would take 4271.1 days or 11.7 years.\n\nIf one was to count the entire distance to the moon as an ascension, this would add 507,338 hours (304,403 *1000 to convert to meters. 304,403,000/300 = 1,014,676 - the number of 1/2 hours to add.  1,014,676/2=507,338 - number of hours).\n\nThis would make the total trip time 584,218 hours or 24,342 days or 66.7 years.\n\nBetter pack a lunch...
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Saturn travels at an average speed of 21,637 miles per hour or 34,821 kilometers per hour in its orbit around the sun therefore orbiting around the sun once every 29.4 Earth years, or once every 10,755.7 Earth days.
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Velocity is relative to the viewer. Are you measuring the speed of Mercury around the Sun?. Relative to Earth?. Or from some nominal point in space?\n\nIt lasted 4hrs 58mins\n\nAnyway The transit took place from 11:12 a.m. PST until 4:10 p.m. PST and was visible from the Pacific, the Americas, eastern Asia, Australia, and New Zealand, although some locations were not be able to see the entire transit. Because of Mercury’s diminutive size, the transit couldn't be seen with the unaided eye, but it was visible with a telescope (with the proper filter) or by using a homemade optical projector.
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It is in "tidal lock" with the earth.  Over the eons, its rotational speed has been slowed down to synch up with its orbit of earth.  Mercury is in tidal lock with the sun as well.  One side of Mercury is always extremely hot, and the other side is extremely cold, despite it being the closest planet to the sun.
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PAST MISSION  LAUNCHED TO  VENUS AND ARRIVAL   \n                                                               \nMariner 2      Aug 27, 1962                          Dec 14, 1962  \nMariner 5      June 14, 1967                        Oct 19, 1967  \nMariner 10    Nov 3, 1973                           Feb 5, 1974  \nPioneer         May 20, 1978                       Dec 4, 1978  \nMagellan       May 4, 1989                          Aug 10, 1990  \n\nThe distance between Earth and Venus varies depending on where the two planets are in their orbits around the sun. So the time it takes to travel to Venus from Earth depends on the distance between the two planets at the time of launch. It also depends on the speed of the spacecraft and the path chosen.\nThe next transit of Venus occurs in June 2012.
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Mercury - 88 days\nVenus - 224.7 days\nEarth - 1 year\nMars - 686.9 days\nJupiter - 11.9 years
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Well, they say there´s no end to space....prove it!!! \n\nI say it should take you about 3 weeks if you take a gentle stroll...but hey, who´s gonna prove me wrong!!! \n\nGreat question... ;-)
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It's about 93 million miles. It takes a sunbeam about eight minutes to reach earth once it leaves the sun. The moon, by contrast, is about 240,000 miles away, but I'm not positive about that exact number. I am positive about the sun, though.
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The distance from the earth to the sun is about 93 million miles. The speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second. Dividing shows that it tkes light about 500 seconds to go from the sun to the earth. That's 8 minutes 20 seconds.
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Earth and all the other planets in the solar system revolve, or orbit, around the Sun due to the force of gravitation. The Earth travels at a velocity of about 107,000 km/h (about 67,000 mph) as it orbits the Sun.
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It takes the moon roughly 28 days to orbit the Earth.  Divide that into the number of minutes in a day (1440), and there's your 50 minutes.
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Get in touch with me, buong, I am, and I will be leaving in 4 days. My name here is Glalien, I come from Pleedeeze, it takes 8 hours to arrive here from our planet, via time warping. Our ships are made of nothing you have on this planet. Our propulsion is of magnetics. You will not believe me if I tell you why we are here. Look me up.
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well, i'll answer your questions in reverse order.\n\nneptune's average distance from the sun is about 4.5 billion kilometers, or about 30 times as far out as the earth.  it has a diameter of around 50,000 kilometers, which means it's about 4 times the size of the earth.\n\nas for how long it would take - that entirely depends on what kind of spaceship you used to get there.  if you had a fictional spacecraft that could go nearly the speed of light, it would take around 3 hours.  if you used the same kind of spacecraft that the apollo missions used, you would be traveling around 25,000 MPH.  this is around 40,000 kilometers per hour, so:\n\n4.5 billion kilometers / 40,000 kilometers per hour = 112500 hours = 13 years or so.
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Mercury' orbit is highly eccentric. The strong gravitational field of the sun introduces relativistic effects into its orbit such as the precession of 52 seconds every century.
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It takes light 8 minutes (plus or minus seconds) to travel from the Sun to the Earth. So if the sun 'Died' this second, it will take 8 minutes till we know about it, i.e. the lights go out and the heating is turned off.\n\nHopefully we will still have the stars and moon to merrily sooth us into our freezing tombs.
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Well the earth orbit's the sun \n2AU * PI / year\n\nAn AU is the average distance of the Earth from the sun in it's orbit.  Although all orbit's are ellipses, the equation of a circle should approximate close enough.\n\n1AU =149.598×10^6 km.\n2AU = 299196000 km \n\nThe earth moves really fast so we should convert years into seconds.  The earth orbits the sun once about every 365.25 days (the .25 is why we have leap years).\n\n365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60 = 31557600 seconds.\n\nSo now all we must figure out to get the speed in km/sec we calculate \n(299196000 * PI) / 31557600\n=29.785280109497\n\nSo the Earth orbits the sun at a speed of 29.785280109497 km/sec.  That's pretty fast!\n\nWikipedia gives a max orbital speed of 29.783 km/sec and a min orbital speed of 29.291 km/sec, so my estimate was pretty darn close.