Powers of Ten
10-14 m A Uranium Nucleus
10-13m Wavelength of electron
10-12 m Wavelength of X Ray
10-11 m
Radius of the Hydrogen Atom
10-10 Width of Ice or Quartz Cell
10-9 m Width of DNA Helix
How boh dah
10-8m Thickness of Bacteria Flagellum
10-7m Length of a Virus
HIV Virion
10-6m Diameter of a Bacteria
10-5m diameter of a human red blood cell
10-4m Length of a dust mite
10-3 m
Thickness of a dime
10-2m Width of a fingernail
10-1 m Width of a hand
100m Distance from floor to doorknob
101 m Distance of a first down
102m One side of a running track
103 m The distance between the American extremity of the Niagara Falls and the Canadian extremity
104 m Depth of the Mariana Trench
105 m Length of Connecticut
106 m length of California (north to south)
107 m Distance from N. Pole to Equator
108m diameter of Saturn
109 m Diameter of the sun
1010m One half the distance light travels in a minute
1011m distance from the Sun to Venus
1012m Distance from Sun to Saturn
1013m Diameter of Solar System
1014 m 10 x diameter of the Solar System
1015 m Light Year
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Proxima
Centauri
1016 m Inner Radius of Oort Cloud
1017m Distance from Earth to Vega
Distance of earth to Vega:
100000000000000000 meters
1018m - Diameter of a Globular Cluster
1019m Leo II Dwarf Galaxy
1020m Diameter of Small Magellanic Cloud
1021m Diameter of the disc of the Milky Way
1022 m Distance to Andromeda Galaxy