Convert 500,000 Kilometers to Astronomical Units
How far is 500,000 kilometers? How long is 500 thousand kilometers in astronomical units? 500,000 km to AU conversion.
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500,000 Kilometers ≈
0.0033422936 Astronomical Units
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Result in Plain English
500 thousand kilometers is equal to about 3.34 thousandths of a astronomical unit.
To a Percentage
500,000 kilometers ≈ 0.334% of a astronomical unit.
In Scientific Notation
500,000 kilometers
= 5 x 105 kilometers
≈ 3.34229 x 10-3 astronomical units
Kilometers
A kilometer, or kilometre, is a unit of length equal to 1,000 meters, or about 0.621 miles. In most of the world, it is the most common unit for measuring distance between places.
Astronomical Units
An astronomical unit is the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. Estimates of this distance have varied over time. It is now defined as exactly 149,597,870.7 kilometers.