Length - all in metres
An
Extract from The Nuffield Advanced Science Book of Data
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| 0.0000000001 | Diameter of a Hydrogen atom | |
| 0.000005 | Length of a human chromosome | |
| 0.00008 | Width of a human hair | |
| 0.0001 | Thickness of paper | |
| 0.0014 | Thickness of 1 p coin | |
| 0.25 | Length of a brick | |
| 1.8 | Height of an average man | |
| 5.0 | Height of a 2 story house | |
| 20 | Length of cricket pitch | |
| 294 | Length of the QE2 | |
| 450 | Height of the Empire State Building | |
| 8800 | Height of Mount Everest | |
| 10000 | Deepest part of the ocean | |
| 2400000 | Length of the Great Wall of China | |
| 3400000 | Diameter of Moon | |
| 12000000 | Diameter of Earth | |
| 400000000 | Distance from Earth to Moon | |
| 150000000000 | Distance from Earth to Sun | |
| 9500000000000000 | One light year | |
| 46000000000000000 | Distance to nearest star | |
| 2000000000000000000000 | Diameter of the Milky Way | |
| 10000000000000000000000 | Average distance between galaxies |