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Because it would be impractical (very large numbers) to use kilometers, miles, or meters to measure distances in our solar system. This unit of measurement is used as it allows for comparisons to be done with relative ease, and all distances can be standardized. For this same reason when talking about anything outside of the solar system, light-years are used as the distances become drastically larger and too much for AUs to handle.

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