Convert 5,500 Light Seconds to Astronomical Units
How far is 5,500 light seconds? How long is 5.5 thousand light seconds in astronomical units? 5,500 light seconds to AU conversion.
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5,500 Light Seconds ≈
11.021938 Astronomical Units
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Result in Plain English
5,500 light seconds is equal to about 11.0 astronomical units.
In Scientific Notation
5,500 light seconds
= 5.5 x 103 light seconds
≈ 1.10219 x 101 astronomical units
Light Seconds
A light second is the distance that light travels in one second. It is exactly 299,792.458 kilometers or about 186,000 miles.
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.