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Todays
agenda:
What
units
are
used
to
measure
astronomical
distances?
What
methods
are
used
to
measure
astronomical
distances?
How
do
these
compare
to
the
everyday
world?
hBp://today.io/qjpr
TwiBer:
#Astro2022
Earth-Sun:
150 000 000 km
Earth-Pluto
6 000 000 000 km
Earth-nearest
stars
10 000 000 000 000 km
exponent
s 1 yr
1 day
1 hr
1 min
= 9,460,000,000,000 km
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Luminosity
Brightness
=
4
(distance)2
Astronomyinyourhands.com,
Pearson
Educa-on,
STScI
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NB:
Logarithmic
scale!
3 x 105
3 x 100
Ordero>ime.com hBp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Xmeline_of_the_universe
End
of
class.
For
next
week:
please
read
State
of
the
Universe,
Chapter
3