Ok here is a question for everyone in the next decade or two if one of NASA's satellites spots an asteroid traveling at 14,000 mph and is exactly 2 light years away from earth how long will asteroid take to get here?

(Note): When I mean in the next decade I mean that NASA could spot an incoming object 2 or more light years away within 120 seconds, and another 5 seconds of sending the data of the incoming object back to earth.

95,657years if the asteroid is traveling at 14,000mph directly, and relatively, in the direction of Earth

Your object is moving at about 1/50,000th of lightspeed, so it'll take about 100,000 years to travel two light years.

Grant Hutchison

PS: Overlapped with Frogmarch. Fortunately we get the same result.

Hey Frog march its me astroboy89 I'm just using a different screen name because my old aol email account got deleted by aol itself so I'm stuck using this screen name and a google account

>Thanks for the calculation though.

you could just log in to your old account and then change the email in your profile here

http://www.bautforum.com/profile.php?do=editpassword

Problem with that can't remember my old password since gustave89@aol.com gotten deleted by aol along with my email that has my old password.

well, maybe you could get a Mod to change your email; I think they can do that, but they can't change your password.

then you should be able to reset your password.

I assume that you're other account is atroboy07 not89.

http://www.bautforum.com/members/astroboy07.html