If a planet is 93,341,952 km away and you use a space shuttle, which travels at a speed of 28,000 km/hr to get there, how many days would it take to reach your destination?
How long does it take to reach deimos?
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algebra-precalculus
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0Divide distance by speed. That will give you the time in hours. Then divide by $24$ to get days. Unrealistic problem, no real spacecraft would go in a straight line. Nor at constant speed. – 2012-05-24
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1Title/body disconnect --- Deimos isn't a planet. – 2012-05-24
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Good hint 1: Travelling at a constant speed, time is distance divided by speed.
Good hint 2: You may need to adjust between hours and days.
Bad hint 3: Planets move relative to each other.
Bad hint 4: Martian days are slightly longer than Earth days.
Bad hint 5: You may need to accelerate and decelerate.
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0Maybe one more? Really Bad Hint : Interplanetary travel usually requires you to "slingshot" yourself using gravitational fields of larger planets (Called [gravity assist](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_assist)). Also, why the mathematica tag? – 2012-05-24
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0What makes you think you can get there w/ a space shuttle? – 2012-05-24
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0Actually you can't go anywhere with a space shuttle any more: they've all been retired. But they could never go higher than 1000 km or so above the earth's surface. – 2012-05-24