on 4/25/2002 10:00 PM, Bill Hooper at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is hoped that, before that happens, astronomers will > have abandoned the light-year entirely in favor of units like > terametres: 1 light year equals about > 10 terametres (10 Tm).
Sorry about the slip-up above. That should have been: 1 light-year = about 10 petametres (10 Pt) I was off by a factor of 1000. (1 Pm = 1000 Tm) Regards, Bill Hooper college physics teacher (retired), USA (Florida) +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Do It Easy, Do It Metric! +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
