Height of Mount Everest

Height of Mount Everest (8.85 km)

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If Height of Mount Everest (8.85 km) was a standard unit ...

  • Altitude of a geosynchronous orbit of a satellite around the Earth (35,800 km)...more would be 4000 x Height of Mount Everest
  • Diameter of Earth's Moon (3,480 km)...more would be 400 x Height of Mount Everest
  • Height of Olympus Mons (Mars) (21.9 km)...more would be 2.5 x Height of Mount Everest
  • Height of the Hoover dam wall (221.4 m)...more would be 1/40 of Height of Mount Everest
  • Height of the Flatiron Building in New York (87 m)...more would be 1/100 of Height of Mount Everest
  • Height of an All-Terrain Armored Transport (AT-AT) in Star Wars movies (22.5 m)...more would be 1/400 of Height of Mount Everest
  • Height of the US Presidents' heads carved into Mount Rushmore (18 m)...more would be 1/500 of Height of Mount Everest
  • Height of Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies (2.21 m)...more would be 1/4000 of Height of Mount Everest

Is That A Big Number? - The Book

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

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