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Question
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Why is it considered inappropriate to use light years to measure distances within our solar system?
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The light year is too big
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The solar system is to small
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light doesn’t travel in our solar system
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We only use light years to measure sizes, not distances
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The light year is used to measure distances in space because the distances are so big that a large unit of distance is required.
Detailed explanation-2: -Most distances in the Galaxy are measured in light-years instead of meters. Why do you think this is the case? The stars are very far away, and the meter is a small unit at the scale of humans. Even if we used AU instead of meters to measure the distances to stars, the closest star is almost 900, 000 AU away.
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