*Adapted from “The International System of Units (SI),” National Bureau of Standards Special Publication 330, 1972 edition. The definitions above were adopted by the General Conference of Weights and Measures, an international body, on the dates shown. In this book we do not use the candela.
*The values in this table were selected from the 1998 CODATA recommended values (www.physics.nist.gov).
Some Distances from Earth
The sun, Earth, and the Moon
Some Properties of the planets
Conversion ...
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