Convert 1,000,000,000 Kilometers to Light Minutes
How far is 1,000,000,000 kilometers? How long is 1 billion kilometers in light minutes? 1,000,000,000 km to light minutes conversion.
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1,000,000,000 Kilometers ≈
55.594016 Light Minutes
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Result in Plain English
1 billion kilometers is equal to about 55.6 light minutes.
In Scientific Notation
1,000,000,000 kilometers
= 1 x 109 kilometers
≈ 5.5594 x 101 light minutes
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.
Light Minutes
A light minute is the distance that light travels in one minute. It is exactly 17,987,547.48 kilometers or about 11.177 million miles.