[AZ-Observing] Re: Cubits, a repost
- From: chaz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 16:31:40 -0400
Looks like you got hexed.
Quoting Matt Luttinen <mluttinen@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Let's try again, sending in plain text:
>
> OK,
>
> I'll bite:
>
> >From a paper by Stanek and Garnavich, using parallax distance =
> measurements to "Red Clump" giants in M31 (hi AJ), a mean distance of
> 784 kpc plus/minus ~2 percent is derived. So I'll take 784 kpc (784000 =
> parsecs) as "gospel."
>
> So we have:
> 1 parsec =3D 3.08568025 =D7 10E16 meters
>
> 1 cubit =3D 0.4572 meters
>
> cubits/parsec =3D 3.08568025 =D7 10E16 meters / 0.4572 meters =3D =
> 6.74908191164 x 10E16
>
> Finally:
>
> 6.74908191164 x 10E16 cubits/parsec * 784000 parsec=3D 5.29128021872 x =
> 10E22 cubits
>
> That's a pretty long walk . . .
>
> Matt
>
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