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There was a major collision of an asteroid with the Moon

Chapter 25, Problem 9

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There was a major collision of an asteroid with the Moon in medieval times. It was described by monks at Canterbury Cathedral in England as a red glow on and around the Moon. How long after the asteroid hit the Moon, which is 3.84×105 km away, would the light first arrive on Earth?

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Problem 9PE

There was a major collision of an asteroid with the Moon in medieval times. It was described by monks at Canterbury Cathedral in England as a red glow on and around the Moon. How long after the asteroid hit the Moon, which is 3.84×105 km away, would the light first arrive on Earth?

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The expression to find the distance travelled by light is,

d=ct

Here d is distance, v is the speed and t is the time.

Rearrange the expression for the time t,

t=

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