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Pluto has a moderately eccentric and inclined orbit, ranging from 30 to 49 astronomical units (4.5 to 7.3 billion kilometres; 2.8 to 4.6 billion miles) from the Sun. Light from the Sun takes 5.5 hours to reach Pluto at its orbital distance of 39.5 AU (5.91 billion km; 3.67 billion mi).
This list of countries by traffic-related death rate shows the annual number of road fatalities per capita per year, per number of motor vehicles, and per vehicle-km in some countries in the year the data was collected. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), road traffic injuries caused an estimated 1.35 million deaths worldwide in ...
Morris County is a county located in the U.S. state of New Jersey, about 30 mi (48 km) west of New York City.According to the 2020 census, the county was the state's tenth-most populous county, [6] with a population of 509,285, [3] [4] its highest decennial count ever and an increase of 17,009 (+3.5%) from the 2010 census count of 492,276, [7] which in turn reflected an increase of 22,064 (+11 ...
1 km – wavelength of the highest long wave radio frequency, 300 kHz [138] 4 km – width of Central Park; 1.280 km – span of the Golden Gate Bridge (distance between towers) [139] 1.609 km – 1 statute mile; 1.852 km – 1 nautical mile, equal to 1 arcminute of latitude at the surface of the Earth [140]
In Brazil, it is common to compare relatively small areas to the state of Sergipe (21,910.4 km 2 or 8,459.7 sq mi), the smallest in the country. Smaller areas are sometimes compared to the cities of São Paulo (1,521.11 km 2 or 587.30 sq mi) or Rio de Janeiro (1,221 km 2 or 471 sq mi).
The Andromeda Galaxy is approaching the Milky Way at about 110 kilometres (68 miles) per second. [130] It has been measured approaching relative to the Sun at around 300 km/s (190 mi/s) [ 1 ] as the Sun orbits around the center of the galaxy at a speed of approximately 225 km/s (140 mi/s).
List of the most massive known stars. Legend. Wolf–Rayet star. Luminous blue variable. O-type star. B-type star. The following two lists show a few of the known stars, including the stars in open cluster, OB association and H II region.
China was the world's most populous country from at least 1950 [ 4 ] until being surpassed by India in 2023. [ 5 ][ 6 ] By one estimate, in 2023 China's population stood at 1.409 billion, down from the 1.412 billion recorded in the 2020 census. [ 7 ] By another, the population was likely 1.28 billion in 2020 and had been surpassed by India some ...