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Since we are talking about astronomical observations, it is convenient to use theastronomicalunitof apparent brightness which is the magnitude.
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This has led to calls to abandon theastronomicalunitas a unit of measurement.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The measurements of the secular variations of theastronomicalunitare not confirmed by other authors and are quite controversial.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If viewed from a distance of 1astronomicalunit, it would span an angular diameter of 35 and shine at magnitude 38.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The nameastronomicalunitappears first to have been used in 1903.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Depending on the value assumed for theastronomicalunit, this yields the speed of light as just a little more than 300,000 kilometres per second.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At its core is a shield world, contained within slipstream space, that is approximately oneastronomicalunitin diameter.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A particle of negligible mass, that orbits a body of 1 solar mass in this period, has a mean axis for its orbit of 1astronomicalunitby definition.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Aten was the first asteroid found to have a semi-major orbital axis of less than oneastronomicalunit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The gap between the two rings is 3 astronomical units.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These two components are more than 500 astronomical units apart, with an estimated orbital period of approximately 3600 years.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Using the stellar mass and period, he calculated semimajor axis as 0.911 astronomical units.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The inner ring extends from a distance of 1.5 to 2 astronomical units from the barycenter of the central binary.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At its closest, it is only 0.26 astronomical units away from the sun, having the 32nd closest perihelion of any minor planet.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The two stars are 0.68 arcseconds, or at least 12 astronomical units, apart and complete one orbit every 33.99 years.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The pair are separated by a mean distance of roughly 4 astronomical units.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Its two components are separated by 0.05 arcseconds, or at least 1.4 astronomical units, and have an orbital period in excess of 14 years.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The two stars are separated by only 0.1 astronomical units, so their shapes are modified by mutual tidal interaction.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.By convention, exozodiacal dust refers to the innermost and hottest part of these debris disks, within a few astronomical units from the star.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The two stars are separated by 0.15 arcseconds on the sky, which puts them approximately 15 astronomical units apart.
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