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For scale, Voyager 1 is about 167 AU away.

• seanhunter 1y ago
  You’re never going to break into popular science reporting with that sort of attitude. If you are going to do the scale of a small thing, you have to compare it to the size of a banana or the width of a hair if it’s very small. For larger things, “football pitches” are the standard, although “blue whales” and “double-decker busses” are also acceptable units in some circumstances. So, for scale, Voyager 1 is about 2.5 x 10^11 regulation football pitches away although they vary in size so it could be anywhere between 2.08 x 10^11 and 2.8 x 10^11. Now, see how much more relatable that is for a common person?
  • nandomrumber 1y ago
    Smoots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot
    • xg15 1y ago
      We should definitely use TeraSmoots more as an astronomically unit.
      • nandomrumber 1y ago
        1 AU is 0.879 TeraSmoots