Imagine the Universe!
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Your answer is quite a bit off. You're on the right track, but you must have calculated something wrong! Make sure to check your work carefully, including your units! Notice especially the time units of the light curve and those of the velocity. When the time units match, they cancel each other, leaving the answer in units of distance (the distance units of the velocity, in this case, km).

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Imagine the Universe is a service of the High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), Dr. Nicholas White (Director), within the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

The Imagine Team
Project Leader: Dr. Jim Lochner
All material on this site has been created and updated between 1997-2004.

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