<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 May 2012 16:17, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">BOTECs in round numbers that I can recall, the distance from the sun to the center of the Milky Way is about 27,000 years, and the orbit period is about 250 million years, so the orbit speed is about 0.1 milli-c, and escape velocity from any round orbit is square root 2 times the tangential velocity so escape velocity from here would be about 140 micro-c, and a micro-c is about .3 km/sec so escape is about 40 km/sec.</span></p>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I love those who speak Latin for us lazy lawyers... :-)</div><div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:15px">This makes it what, four orders of magnitude higher than escape velocity from earth?</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></div></div>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>