Timeline for Why don't astronomers use meters to measure astronomical distances?
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:47 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 24, 2017 at 19:27 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | I fully agree, it was very convenient. I think that in the end it's mostly a matter of convention. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 16:56 | comment | added | Agile_Eagle | also parsec is convenient since its definition makes it very easy to compute distance using parallax | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 16:10 | comment | added | Agile_Eagle | You could have named parsecs as petameters. We just decided that parsec sounded better. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 9:20 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | "humans understand the difference between 1 and 10 parsecs better than they would do if the same data was presented in meters." Just add one of the SI prefixes for meters and you end up with the same numerical situation. This doesn't really explain why parsecs and not petameters (Pm). | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 6:13 | review | Late answers | |||
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| Jul 24, 2017 at 5:54 | history | answered | Agile_Eagle | CC BY-SA 3.0 |