What if the Earth stops in its orbit and instead falls straight towards the Sun? [closed]

The Earth orbits around the Sun because it has angular momentum. If we stopped the Earth in orbit and then let it fall straight towards the Sun, how long would it take to reach the Sun in seconds?

Details and assumptions

The mass of the sun is 2*10^30 Kg.
The mass of the earth is 6*10^24 Kg.
The earth is 149,600,000 Km from the Sun.
You may treat the Earth and Sun as point masses.


closed as off-topic by John Rennie, Kyle Kanos, Abhimanyu Pallavi Sudhir, Waffle's Crazy Peanut, jinaweeDec 26 '13 at 18:28

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• This seems to be a homework question. – fibonatic Dec 26 '13 at 14:04