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Astronomical Constants

Quantity Value
astronomical unit (A.U.) 149,597,870.691 kilometers
light year (ly)9.460536207 · 1012 km = 63,240 A.U.
parsec (pc)3.08567802 · 1013 km = 206,265 A.U.
parsec / light year3.261622
sidereal year 365.2564 days
tropical year 365.2422 days
Gregorian year 365.2425 days
Earth mass 5.9736 · 1024 kilograms
Sun mass 1.9891 · 1030 kg = 332,980 · Earth
mean Earth radius 6371 kilometers
Sun radius 6.96265 · 105 km = 109 · Earth
Sun luminosity 3.827 · 1026 watts

Physical Constants

Quantity Value
speed of light (c) 299,792.458 kilometers/second
gravitational constant (G) 6.6726 · 10-11 m3 /(kg sec2)
Boltzmann constant (k) 1.380658 · 10-23 Joules/Kelvin
Stefan-Boltzmann constant (s) 5.67051 · 10-8 J/(m2 K4 s)
Wien's law constant 2.897756 · 106 nanometers Kelvin
Planck constant (h) 6.6260755 · 10-34 Joules second
electron mass 9.1093898 · 10-28 grams
= 5.48579903 · 10-4 amu
proton mass 1.6726231 · 10-24 grams
= 1.007276470 amu
neutron mass 1.6749286 · 10-24 grams
= 1.008664904 amu
deuterium nucleus mass 3.3435860 · 10-24 grams
= 2.013553214 amu

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