An AU (astronomical unit)

An AU (astronomical unit) (149.6 million km)

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If An AU (astronomical unit) (149.6 million km) was a standard unit ...

  • Distance to the Oort Cloud (748 billion km)...more would be 5000 x An AU (astronomical unit)
  • Distance to Pluto (dwarf planet) (5.92 billion km)...more would be 40 x An AU (astronomical unit)
  • Distance from the Earth to the Sun (149.6 million km)...more would be about as big as An AU (astronomical unit)
  • Circumference of Venus (37,700 km)...more would be 1/4000 of An AU (astronomical unit)
  • Range of an Airbus A380 (15,200 km)...more would be 1/10000 of An AU (astronomical unit)

Is That A Big Number? - The Book

Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.

Click here to learn more about it.

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