Period of Ceres's orbit

Period of Ceres's orbit (4.6 y)

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If Period of Ceres's orbit (4.6 y) was a standard unit ...

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

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