With Christmas just around the corner, Santa Claus is getting ready for his trip around the world… but how long would it actually take him?
According to North Carolina State University’s Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Larry Silverberg, it would take about six ‘”Santa months.”
“Santa has to deliver gifts to around 200 million children spread over 200 million square miles. Because each household has 2.67 children that are about 75 million homes to visit and the average distance between homes is about 1.63 miles, Santa needs to cover 122 million miles. To cover that distance in 24 hours on Christmas, Mr. Claus’s sleigh would need to travel at a whopping average speed of 5,083,000 mph,” he says.
Silverberg believes that this speed is possible because Santa would be travelling 130 times slower than the speed of light. It would be difficult, but it’s possible.