Period of Jupiter's orbit

Period of Jupiter's orbit (11.86 y)

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Period of Jupiter's orbit (11.86 y)

  • is 1/2500 of Time since first humans in Europe (30,000 y)...more
  • is 1/2500 of Time since extinction of Neanderthals (30,000 y)...more
  • is 1/2500 of Age of earliest sewing needle (30,000 y)...more
  • is 1/2500 of Time since the earliest bread baking (30,000 y)...more
  • is 1/1000 of Time since the end of the Pleistocene geologic epoch (11,700 y)...more
  • is 1/200 of Time since the birth of Aristotle (2,400 y)...more
  • is 1/200 of Time since the birth of Euclid (2,384 y)...more
  • is 1/200 of Time since the birth of Alexander the Great (2,379 y)...more
  • is 1/50 of Time since invention of the printing press (584 y)...more
  • is 1/40 of Duration of Roman Republic (482 y)...more
  • is 1/40 of Time since the publication of Copernicus's sun-centred model of the solar system (481 y)...more
  • is 1/10 of Time since the publication of Einstein's theory of Special Relativity (119 y)...more
  • is 1/10 of Time since the birth of computer scientist Grace Hopper (118 y)...more
  • is 1/10 of Length of the Hundred Years' War (117 y)...more
  • is 1/4 of Time since Concorde Supersonic Airliner entered service (48 y)...more
  • is 1/4 of Time since first Apple ][ computer launched (47 y)...more
  • is 2/5 of Lifespan of horse (30 y)...more
  • is 2/5 of Period of Saturn's orbit (29.5 y)...more
  • is about as big as Length of the Napoleonic wars (12 y)...more

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