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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.
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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