Is That A Big Number?

"Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space." Douglas Adams

Equivalent to 481,000 meter

Smaller than: Distance from London to Edinburgh (535 km) ...

Bigger than: Altitude of the orbit of the International Space Station (400 km) ...

1 / 800 of the distance from the Earth to the Moon (384,000 km) ...

1 / 83 of the distance around the equator (40,100 km) ...

1 / 12 of the distance from London to New York (5,580 km) ...

0.90 times the distance from London to Edinburgh (535 km) ...

1.20 times the height of the orbit of the International Space Station (400 km) ...

37 times the cruising altitude of a commercial jet (13 km) ...

54 times the height of Mount Everest (8.85 km) ...

491 times the height of Angel Falls (Venuzeula) (979 m) ...

580 times the height of the `Burj Khalifa` scyscraper (Dubai) (830 m) ...

1,971 times the length of London's Tower Bridge (244 m) ...

4,580 football pitches end to end (105 m) ...

42,800 London buses end to end (11.23 m) ...

96,200 times the typical height of a giraffe (5 m) ...

114,500 times the height of an African elephant (4.2 m) ...

178,100 times the height of an ostrich (2.7 m) ...

is 1/2 of Direct distance from Land's End to John o' Groats (970 km)...

is 4 x Diameter of the (fictional) Death Star in the first Star Wars movie (120 km)...

is 500 x Height of the Angel Falls (Venuzeula) (979 m)...

is 500 x Height of Tugela Falls in South Africa (948 m)...

is 1000 x World record longest flight of an arrow from a bow (2010) (484 m)...

Yes, there's now a book based on these numbers. Oxford University Press: July 2018.