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Length/Distance | Convert from Scots foot to astronomical unit |
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Common Length Conversions Metric Length Conversions Unit Definition (Scots foot) The Scots foot is a traditional distance units in Scotland. The Scots foot equals 1.005 405 4 English foot (about 12.065 English inches or 30.645 centimeters). The English foot and statute mile, of course, are now official in Scotland. Unit Definition (astronomical unit) An Astronomical Unit is approximately the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun. It is a derived constant and used to indicate distances within the solar system. Its formal definition is the radius of an unperturbed circular orbit a massless body would revolve about the sun in 2*(pi)/k days (i.e., 365.2568983.... days), where k is defined as the Gaussian constant exactly equal to 0.01720209895. Since an AU is based on radius of a circular orbit, one AU is actually slightly less than the average distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 150 million km or 93 million miles).
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