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  Automobile 60 mph Bullet train 180 mph Boeing 757 600 mph Voyager 17 km/second 10.5 miles/sec Starship light-speed (186,282 miles per second)
Moon
Distance:
220,968 miles
22 weeks 7 weeks, 2 days 19 days 5 hours, 50 minutes 1.2 seconds
Mars
Distance: (minimum)
33.8 million miles
54.5 million km
65 years 21.7 years 6.5 years 37 days 3 minutes
Saturn
Distance: (minimum)
741.2 million miles
1,195.5 million km
1,410 years 470 years 141 years 2 years, 3 months 1 hour, 6 minutes
Proxima Centauri (closest star)
Distance:
4.28 light-years 25 trillion miles
40 trillion km
50 million years 16.7 million years 5 million years 76,000 years 4.28 years
Epsilon Andromedae (closest planetary system)
Distance:
10.3 light-years
110 million years 36.7 million years 11 million years 180,000 years 10.3 years

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