SOLUTION: Please give me a detailed solution. 3.The solar wind is a stream of particles blown away from Sun during an eruption traveling at 600 km/s. a. How much time do we have to prepa

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Question 880437: Please give me a detailed solution.
3.The solar wind is a stream of particles blown away from Sun during an eruption traveling at 600 km/s.
a. How much time do we have to prepare?

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3.The solar wind is a stream of particles blown away from Sun during an eruption traveling at 600 km/s.
That's a CME, a Coronal Mass Ejection. The solar wind is constant.
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a. How much time do we have to prepare?
We're ~ 300 million kms from the Sun.
d = r*t
t = d/r
t = 3e8/6e2 = 0.5e6
t = 500,000 seconds