The Metric System - BIG Okay, so you have gotten a look at the metric world of the small and very small, but now it is time to look at the metric world.

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The Metric System - BIG Okay, so you have gotten a look at the metric world of the small and very small, but now it is time to look at the metric world of the very big. 1000 meters = 1 kilometer … or 1 km To put this in perspective, a kilometer is shorter than a mile … 0.62 miles to be exact. So when you go 100 km/hr, you are only going 62 miles/hr.

The Metric System - BIG Kilometers are useful when measuring the size of moons, planets, and the Sun. The Moon has a diameter of 3476 km. The Earth has a diameter of 12,756 km. The planet Jupiter has a diameter of 142,800 km. The Sun has a diameter of 1,392,000 km.

The Metric System - BIG But kilometers are NOT useful when trying to describe distances in space. Astronomers use a term called the Astronomical Unit (AU) when referring to the distance to the planets in the Solar System. One AU is defined as the average distance from Sun to Earth … 149,600,000 km The Earth is 149,600,000 km from the Sun … or 1 AU. Planet Jupiter is 777,900,000 km from the Sun … or 5.2 AU. Planet Neptune is 4,488,400,000 km from the Sun … or 30 AU. Pluto used to be the ninth planet, but it was demoted on Aug 24, 2006

The Metric System - BIG But Astronomical Units are not useful when describing the distances to other stars and galaxies in space. For that, astronomers use a distance measure called the Light Year (ly). It is the distance that light travels in one year. And light can go pretty far in one year!

The Metric System - BIG A beam of light from a flashlight travels at a speed of 300,000 km in one second. For those who are metrically challenged, this is 186,000 miles in one second. Light will wrap around the Earth more than 7 times in just one second. But how far does light go in one year?

The Metric System - BIG Well, there are 60 seconds in one minute. 60 x 300,000 km = 18,000,000 km in 1 light minute There are 60 minutes in an hour. 60 x 18,000,000 km = 1,080,000,000 km in 1 light hour There are 24 hours in a day 24 x 1,080,000,000 km = 25,920,000,000 in 1 light day There are 365.25 days in an official year (accounting for leap year) 365.25 x 25,920,000,000 km = 9,467,280,000,000 km in 1 light year. This is almost 9.5 TRILLION kilometers

The Metric System - BIG Finally, astronomers use a few even bigger units of measuring distance. A parsec is 3.26 light years A megaparsec is 3.26 million parsecs I will teach you what the parsec means at a later time in the course. Okay … what do we do with light years?

The Metric System - BIG A An artist’s image of our galaxy, The Milky Way in cross-section B C The distance from the Sun (arrow) to the galaxy core = 26,000 light yrs. A – the distance from the Sun to Earth = 8 light minutes B – the distance from the Sun to Proxima Centauri (the closest star) = 4.3 light yrs C – the distance from the Sun to Andromeda (the closest galaxy) = 2.65 million light yrs

The Metric System - BIG A Astronomers use a term called Look- Back time to describe something truly incredible. When we look at something in space, we are not seeing the object in real time, but what it looked like when the light that we see first left the object. So, we on Earth see the Sun the way it looked 8 minutes ago. We see Proxima Centauri the way it looked 4.3 years ago. The light we see from Andromeda left the galaxy 2.65 million years ago!!! B C A – the distance from the Sun to Earth = 8 light minutes B – the distance from the Sun to Proxima Centauri (the closest star) = 4.3 light yrs C – the distance from the Sun to Andromeda (the closest galaxy) = 2.65 million light yrs

The Metric System - BIG And when we look at some of the galaxies in this image, we are looking at light that first left these objects BILLIONS of years ago. This is why using terms like kilometers and Astronomical Units just cannot adequately describe the size of the Universe and things like light years are needed … to describe space distance and time.

The Metric System - BIG Let’s review: 1 meter = 1 m 1 kilometer = 1000 meters = 1x103 meters 1 Astronomical Unit (AU) = 149,600,000 meters 1 AU = 1.496x108 m = 1.4986x105 km 1 Light Year (ly) = 9,467,280,000,000 kilometers 1 ly = 9.46728x1012 km = 1.946728X1015 m 1 ly = 63,284 AU 1 Parsec (pc) = 30,863,332,800,000 kilometers 1 pc = 3.26 Light Years = 206,305 AU 1 Megaparsec (Mpc) = 30,863,332,800,000,000,000 km 1 Mpc = 1,000,000 pc = 3,260,000,000,000 ly

The Metric System - BIG So, you can see that metric can be very small and very big, but it always breaks down in units of 10, 100, 1000 etc. Now that you have finished a look at the metric world, it is time to take a tour of the Universe and get a better idea of the kinds of things we will cover in this class. Please go to the Moodle Site and click on Tour of the Universe.