Speed Of Stars Exceeds 100,000 Miles An Hour
Scientists have estimated that a German V2 rocket, fired in the desert of New Mexico, soared to a height of 75 miles, and travelled at a maximum speed of 3800 miles an hour, far too fast for the sound of its approach to be heard.
The details concerning the travel of the V2 are so astonishing that one is inclined to wonder whether such velocities can be exceeded. Nature has the answer. Forces beyond the control of man still defy comparison. Astronomers smile at a rocket’s 3800 m.p.h. formidable as it is to the rest of us.
They know, for instance, that for ages past Mercury has oeen speeding round the sun at a velocity exceeding 100,000 miles an hour; and the spectroscope reveals that distant nebulae are moving at a million and a half miles a minute.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 96, 7 November 1947, Page 2
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146Speed Of Stars Exceeds 100,000 Miles An Hour Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 96, 7 November 1947, Page 2
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