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Constants and relationships (astronomical and otherwise)

Constants

All constants are to 4 significant figures unless less acurately known.
NameValue
Astronomical Unit (AU) 1.496 E 11 [m]
Boltzmann's Constant (k) 1.381 E -23 [J/K]
Earth's mass (Me) 5.98 E 24 [kg]
Earth's radius (ave) (Re) 6.37 E 6 [m]
Electron charge (e) 1.602 E -19 [C]
Electron mass (me) 9.110 E -31 [kg]
Gravitational constant (G) 6.672 E -11 [m^3 kg^-1 s^-2]
Light year (ly) 9.461 E 15 [m]
Moon distance (ave) (Dm) 3.85 E 8 [m]
Moon mass (Mm) 6.7 E 22 [kg]
Moon radius (Rm) 1.738 E 8 [m]
Parsec (pc) 3.086 E 16 [m]
Plank's constant (h) 6.626 E -34 [J s]
Solar mass (Ms) 1.989 E 30 [kg]
Solar radius (Rs) 6.953 E 8 [m]
Speed of Light (c) 2.998 E 8 [m/s]

Relationships

1 day 86400 [s]
1 year 3.154 E 7 [s]
1 rad 57.30 [deg]
1 mas 2.777 E -7 [deg]
1 Jy 10 E -26 [W m^2 / Hz]
1 Tesla 1 E 4 [G]
1 Joule 1 E 7 [erg]
1 kHz BW @ 22.24 GHz 0.1348 [km/s]
1 kHz BW @ 1.667 GHz 1.7984 [km/s]
Linear size 1.454 E 10 * (theta / 1 mas) * (D / 1 pc) [m]
Linear size 20.91 * (theta / 1 mas) * (D / 1 pc) [Rs]
Velocity 0.0559 * (Delta theta / 1 mas/d ) * (D / 10 kpc) [c]


Last Updated: 14 April 2003. Richard Ogley

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