Convert 5,000,000,000 Kilometers to Light Minutes
How far is 5,000,000,000 kilometers? How long is 5 billion kilometers in light minutes? 5,000,000,000 km to light minutes conversion.
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5,000,000,000 Kilometers ≈
277.97008 Light Minutes
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Result in Plain English
5 billion kilometers is equal to about 278 light minutes.
In Scientific Notation
5,000,000,000 kilometers
= 5 x 109 kilometers
≈ 2.7797 x 102 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.