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10 3 1 kilometre(km)10 4 10 km10 5 100 km541 m (1,776 ft)height of the planned Freedom Towerat the World Trade Center site553.33 mheight of the CN Tower, the world'stallest free-standing land structure555 mlongest wavelength of the broadcastradio AM band, 540 kHzheight of the Warsaw radio mast,647 mformerly the tallest man-madestructure, collapsed in 1991height of the Salto Angel, the world's979 mhighest free-falling waterfall(Venezuela)1 kmwavelength of the lowest medium waveradio frequency, 300 kHz1609 m 1 international mile1852 m 1 nautical mile8848 mheight of the highest mountain onearth, Mount Everest10.911 kmdepth of deepest part of the ocean,Mariana Trenchheight of the highest known mountain25 kmof the solar system, Olympus Mons onMars31.1 kmhighest parachute jump (JosephKittinger)33 kmnarrowest width of the English Channelat the Strait of Doverhighest manned balloon flight34.668 km(Malcolm D. Ross and Victor E.Prather)length of the Marathon, the longest42.195 kmmainstream long-distance road runningevent53.9 kmlength of the Seikan Tunnel, at present(feb 2006) the longest in the world111 km one degree of latitude on Earthdistance of Bordeaux-Paris, formerly560 kmthe longest one-day professionalcycling race804.672 km (~500 distance of the Indy 500 automobilemiles)race975 km greatest diameter of the largest solar
1,000 km = 110 6 megametre(Mm)10 7 10,000 km10 8 100,000 kmsystem asteroid, 1 Ceres3,480 km diameter of the Moontypical distance covered by the winner5,200 kmof the 24 hours of Le Mans automobileendurance race6,400 km length of the Great Wall of China6,600 kmapproximate length of the two longestrivers, the Nile and the Amazon7,821 km length of the Trans-Canada Highway12,756 km equatorial diameter of the Earth40,075 km length of the Earth's equator142,984 km diameter of Jupiter384,000 km = 384 Mm Moon's orbital distance from Earth1,390,000 km = 1.39diameter of the SunGm10 9 1 million km = 1gigametre (Gm) greatest mileage ever recorded by a car3,600,000 km = 3.6 Gm(A 1966 Volvo P-1800S, still driving)10 10 10 million km10 11 100 million km150 million km = 150Gm1 astronomical unit (AU); meandistance between Earth and Sun.1000 million km 1.4 ×10 9 km orbital distance of Saturn from Sun10 12 = 1 terametre(Tm)5.9 ×10 9 km = 5.9 Tm orbital distance of Pluto from Sun10 13 10 Tm10 14 100 Tm10 15 1 petametre(Pm)10 16 10 Pm14.56 ×10 9 km = 14.56Tm9.46 ×10 12 km = 9.46Pm = 1 light year3.2616 light years(3.08568 ×10 16 m =30.8568 Pm)4.22 light years = 39.9Pmdistance of the Voyager 1 spacecraftfrom sun (November 2005), the farthestman-made object so fardistance travelled by light in one year;at its current speed, Voyager 1 wouldneed 17,500 years to travel thisdistance1 parsecdistance to nearest star (ProximaCentauri)10 17 100 Pm10 18 1 exametre (Em)10 19 10 Em10 20 100 Em 10,000 light years10 21 1 zettametre100,000 light years diameter of galactic disk of Milky Way
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