Period of Ceres's orbit

Period of Ceres's orbit (4.6 y)

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Period of Ceres's orbit (4.6 y)

  • is 1/2500 of Time since the end of the Pleistocene geologic epoch (11,700 y)...more
  • is 1/2500 of Time since the earliest farming (11,500 y)...more
  • is 1/1000 of Time since building of the Great Pyramid of Giza / Cheops / Khufu (4,580 y)...more
  • is 1/500 of Time since the birth of Archimedes (2,300 y)...more
  • is 1/500 of Time since the birth of Eratosthenes (2,299 y)...more
  • is 1/400 of Duration of Pandyan Empire (South India) (1,850 y)...more
  • is 1/400 of Time since the birth of Diophantus (1,814 y)...more
  • is 1/200 of Time since building of Angkor Wat (905 y)...more
  • is 1/100 of Time since the birth of Shakespeare (460 y)...more
  • is 1/100 of Time since the birth of Galileo (457 y)...more
  • is 1/25 of Length of the Hundred Years' War (117 y)...more
  • is 1/25 of Time since first Model T Ford launched (116 y)...more
  • is 1/25 of Time since the birth of chemist Dorothy Hodgkin (114 y)...more

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