100 kilometres
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To help compare orders of magnitude; this page lists lengths between 100 and 1,000 kilometres (105 and 106 metres).
Distances shorter than 100 kilometres
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[edit] Conversions
100 kilometres is equal to:
- 62 miles
[edit] Human-defined scales and structures
- 108 km[note 1] — length of High Speed 1 between London and the Channel Tunnel[needs citation]
- 111 km — distance covered by one degree of latitude on Earth's surface
- 130 km — range of a Scud-A missile
- 163 km — length of the Suez Canal
- 180 km — distance between Mumbai and Nashik
- 213 km — length of Paris Métro
- 217 km — length of the Grand Union Canal
- 220 km — distance between Pune and Nashik
- 223 km — length of the Madrid Metro
- 300 km — range of a Scud-B missile
- 300 km — the approximate distance travelled by light in one millisecond
- 386 km — altitude of the International Space Station
- 408 km — length of the London Underground (active track)
- 470 km — distance from Dublin to London as the crow flies
- 500 km — widest width of Sweden from east to west
- 550 km — distance from San Francisco to Los Angeles as the crow flies
- 560 km — distance of Bordeaux-Paris, formerly the longest one-day professional cycling race[citation needed]
- 590 km — length of land boundary between Finland and Sweden
- 600 km — range of a Scud-C missile
- 600 km — height above ground of the Hubble Space Telescope
- 804.67 km — (500 miles) distance of the Indy 500 automobile race
- 871 km — distance from Sydney to Melbourne (along the Hume Highway)
[edit] Nature
- 203 km — length of Sognefjorden, the second largest fjord in the world
- 240 km — widest width of the English Channel
- 430 km — length of the Pyrenees
- 724 km — length of the Om River
[edit] Astronomical
- 100 km — the altitude at which the FAI defines spaceflight to begin
- 167 km — diameter of Amalthea, one of Jupiter's inner moons
- 220 km — diameter of Phoebe, the largest of Saturn's outer moons
- 340 km — diameter of Nereid, the third largest moon of Neptune
- 350 km — lower bound of Low Earth orbit
- 420 km — diameter of Proteus, the second largest moon of Neptune
- 468 km — diameter of the asteroid 4 Vesta
- 472 km — diameter of Miranda, one of Uranus' major moons
- 974.6 km — greatest diameter of 1 Ceres[1], the largest solar system asteroid[note 2]
Distances longer than 1,000 kilometres
[edit] See also
Click on the thumbnail image to jump to the desired Human-scale order of length magnitude article: top-left is 1E-6m, lower-right is 1E5m.
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| <-24 | -24 | -23 | -22 | -21 | -20 | -19 | -18 | -17 | -16 | -15 | -14 | -13 | -12 | -11 | -10 | -9 | -8 | -7 | -6 | -5 | -4 | -3 | -2 | -1 | 0 |
| longer than 1 metre: | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
[edit] Notes
- ^ km is an abbreviation of kilometre
- ^ The exact category (asteroid/dwarf planet/planet) to which particular solar system objects belong, has been subject to some revision since the discovery of extrasolar planets and trans-Neptunian objects
[edit] References
- ^ Thomas, P. C.; Parker, J. Wm.; McFadden, L. A.; et al. (2005). "Differentiation of the asteroid Ceres as revealed by its shape". Nature 437: 224–226. doi:. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005Natur.437..224T. Retrieved on 2007-12-09.
