Units Of Distance

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• Statute Mile
• Nautical Mile

• 12 inches to the foot
• 3 feet to the yard
• 5.5 yards to the rod, pole or perch
• 4 rods to the chain
• 10 chains to the furlong
• 8 furlongs to the Statute Mile
• 3 Statute Miles to the league
• 7.92 inches to the link
• 100 links to the chain
• 6080 feet to the Admiralty Measured Mile
• 6087.15 feet to the Geographical Mile
• 1 Geographical Mile to 1 arc-minute at the Equator
• 1852 metres to the Nautical Mile.
• 1 Nautical Mile to 1 arc-minute on a Great Circle.
• 6 feet to the fathom
• 100 fathoms to the cable
• 10 cables to the Nautical Mile
• (sort of - some versions of the Nautical Mile have it as 6000 feet)
• 3 Nautical Miles to 1 Nautical League
• 1000 metres to the kilometre

Now for the less serious quantities ...

• 149597871 kilometres to the Astronomical Unit (average distance from Earth to Sun)
• 8.3 light minutes to the Astronomical Unit
• The most distant space probe, Voyager 1, was 12.5 light hours away from Earth in January 2004.
• 63239.726219807 Astronomical Units to the light year
• 3.26 light years to the parsec
• A Parsec is the distance of an object that will subtend one second of arc due to parallax in the annual transit of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.
• 4.22 light years to the nearest star - Proxima Centauri
• The Galaxy is 100000 light years across
• The observable universe has a radius of about 13,700,000,000 light years

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