Period of Pluto's orbit

Period of Pluto's orbit (248 y)

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If Period of Pluto's orbit (248 y) was a standard unit ...

  • Time since the first modern humans (250,000 y)...more would be 1000 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since first humans in Australia (50,000 y)...more would be 200 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since the birth of Socrates (2,490 y)...more would be 10 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since start of building of the Parthenon (2,468 y)...more would be 10 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since the birth of al-Khwarizmi (1,246 y)...more would be 5 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since the birth of al-Kindi (1,220 y)...more would be 5 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since the birth of Omar Khayyam (976 y)...more would be 4 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since the birth of Toscanelli (627 y)...more would be 2.5 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Duration of Toltec Empire (626 y)...more would be 2.5 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Duration of Ottoman Empire (623 y)...more would be 2.5 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Duration of Carthaginian Empire (504 y)...more would be 2 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Duration of Roman Empire (503 y)...more would be 2 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Duration of Egyptian Empire (500 y)...more would be 2 x Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since birth of Sophie Germain (248 y)...more would be about as big as Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since the birth of Gauss (247 y)...more would be about as big as Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since birth of M. C. Escher (126 y)...more would be 1/2 of Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since first transatlantic wireless communication (123 y)...more would be 1/2 of Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Length of reign of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (63 y)...more would be 1/4 of Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since first human went into space (62 y)...more would be 1/4 of Period of Pluto's orbit
  • One average human generation (25 y)...more would be 1/10 of Period of Pluto's orbit
  • Time since first Tesla Model S launched (10 y)...more would be 1/25 of Period of Pluto's orbit

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