SOLUTION: An asteroid is coming straight towards Earth. It may hit our planet 43 years from today. If it is traveling at an average speed of 75 km per second how far away is now. Assume ther

Question 1101037: An asteroid is coming straight towards Earth. It may hit our planet 43 years from today. If it is traveling at an average speed of 75 km per second how far away is now. Assume there are 10 extras days added for leap years and it will hit exactly this time.
Speed=
Distance= T=D/S
Time=

Found 2 solutions by Boreal, josmiceli:
Answer by Boreal(15235) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
speed is 75 km/sec
43 years is 15695 days, add 10 days 15705 days
86400 sec/day
multiply 86400*15705*75, and estimate is about 9 * 10^10 km to 1 * 10^11 km
actual is 1.018 * 10^11 km

Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
[ yrs ] x [ days/yr ] x [ hrs/day ] x [ sec/hr ] = [ total sec ]
sec
add to this:

and
[ km/sec ] x [ sec ] = [ km ]
km
check the math

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