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Earth orbits the Sun at an average distance of 149.60 million km (92.96 million mi), or 8.317 light-minutes, [1] in a counterclockwise direction as viewed from above the Northern Hemisphere. One complete orbit takes 365.256 days (1 sidereal year ), during which time Earth has traveled 940 million km (584 million mi). [ 2 ]
Radius of the Sun (695 500 km, 432 450 mi, a hundred times the radius of Earth or ten times the average radius of Jupiter) — Light-minute: 0.12 — Distance light travels in one minute — Mercury: 0.39 — Average distance from the Sun — Venus: 0.72 — Average distance from the Sun — Earth: 1.00 —
10.8 km (6.7 mi) to 13.2 km (8.2 mi) - From The Ancient Geography of India, 1871, Alexander Cunningham, estimated by comparison with Chinese units of length. [ 19 ] 8.0 km (5 mi) - 1997, Thompson, from dividing the earths diameter by the yojana circumferences offered In the Surya Siddhanta and Aryabhatiya (late 4th-century to 5th-century CE ...
the southern Dutch regions of Limburg and North Brabant (100 km and 99 km per thousand km² respectively). Many cities are rounded by a motorway ring, so the density metric is dependent on the size of the city: Lisbon (222 km per thousand km², in 2004), Vienna (109 km per thousand km²) Comunidad de Madrid (98 km per thousand km²) [3]
The route consists of the southernmost 289.24 miles (465.49 km) [2] of I-15, which extends north through Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Idaho, and Montana to the Canada–US border. It is a major thoroughfare for traffic between San Diego and the Inland Empire , as well as between Southern California , Las Vegas, Nevada , and the Intermountain West .
I-287 covers another 29.76 miles (47.89 km) (including the 18.86 miles (30.35 km) shared with I-87), while I-190 spans 21.24 miles (34.18 km) and I-95 covers 15.01 miles (24.16 km). [ 1 ] All highways maintained by the New York State Thruway Authority (NYSTA) lack the reference markers that exist on all New York State Department of ...