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An astronmoical unit is a larger distance unit than a light year?
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The light year by far. It is equal to about 63,241 AU's and each AU is about 93,000,000 miles (the distance from the earth to the sun). Over all a light year is close to 6 trillion miles.
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Which distance would a light -year be most appropriate for measuring?
Any distance larger than an inconvenient number of billions of miles. The light-year itself is about 5,979 billion miles.
What units of length are longer than the kilometer?
The mile is the smplest and most relevant example, but any unit in the metric system larger than the kilometre includes the megametre (1000km) and the gigametre (1000 megametres). The parsec and the lightyear are probably extreme examples, but still valid.
What unit of distance in space is greater than the light year?
nothing.
Why is it easier to divert microwaves around an object then to divert light waves?
actually microwaves are easier to bend than light waves because microwaves are larger than light waves
How many times bigger is jupiter than pluto?
Jupiter has a radius of 69,911km whereas Pluto has a radius of 1,153km. So Jupiter is about 60 times larger (60.634)
Is a astronomical unit larger than a light year?
An astronomical unit is not larger than a light year. A light years is considered to be approximately 62,000 times larger than an astronomical unit.
Is an astronomical unit larger than a light year?
An astronomical unit is not larger than a light year. A light years is considered to be approximately 62,000 times larger than an astronomical unit.
Which distance is larger 250mm or 2cm?
250mm is 25cm, which is larger than 2cm.
Which is larger an astonomical unit or a light year?
A light year is larger than an astronomical unit.
Which distance would a light -year be most appropriate for measuring?
Any distance larger than an inconvenient number of billions of miles. The light-year itself is about 5,979 billion miles.
What is bigger than a meter?
A kilometer (1000 meters). Larger SI prefixes are possible, but are not normally used in practice (megameter, gigameter, terameter, etc.). In astronomy, three non-SI units, all larger than a meter, are often used: the astronomical unit (the average distance from Sun to Earth), the light-year (the distance light travels in a year), and the parsec (the distance at which an object, viewed from Earth, would have a parallax of 1 arc-second).
Is the diameter of the sun larger than the distance from earth to the sun?
no
A particle scatters light if it is larger than the of light?
Yes if the size of the particle is greater than the wavelength of light falling on it.
How does the distance between planets compare to the distance of stars?
The distance between stars is a couple of order of magnitudes higher than the distance between planets.To put this into perspective, the distance between earth and the sun is 8 light-minutes and the distance between other planets doesn't go further than a few light-hours. On the other hand, the distance between our sun and the nearest star (alpha centauri) is 4.4 light-years. This means that this distance is about 38544 larger than the distance between planets.Beyond that, the distance between stars can be extremely high: a star on the other side of our galaxy will be about 100000 light-years away from us. The distance will keep rising as we move on to different galaxies, then different galaxy clusters, the super clusters and then, finally, the width of the universe.
Is an AU larger than a light year?
No. A light year is about 63,000 AU.
A distance measured in meters is more than a distance measured in kilometers?
Assuming it is the same distance, the distance in metres will be a larger number than the distance in kilometres - but the two distances will still be the same.
What is the name of the distance that is 10-3 larger than a meter?
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