Astronomical Constants
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Constant
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Value
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Astronomical unit (au)
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149,597,870 km
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Speed of light in a vacuum (c)
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299,792.458 km/sec
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Solar parallax
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8.794148 arc seconds
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Mass of the sun
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1.9891 × 1030 kg
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Mass of the earth
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5.9742 × 1024 kg
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Mass of the moon
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7.3483 × 1022 kg
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Light-year (ly)
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9.4605 × 1012 km = 0.30660
pc
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Parsec (pc)
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30.857 × 1012 km = 3.26161
ly
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Obliquity of the eliptic (2000)
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23 ° 26 ' 21.448 '
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General precession (2000)
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50.290966 arc seconds/year
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Constant of nutation (2000)
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9.2025 arc seconds
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Constant of aberration (2000)
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20.49552 arc seconds
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