Given the conversion factors of 100 cm=1 m and 1609 m=1 mile, calculate how far away in miles Alpha Centauri would be in your model (model is attatched in image here)? Show your work if you can. Thanks so much :) ObjectDistance from Sunkilometers A. U.LightScale Distance:travel1 A.U.= 10cmtime(min)5.80 х 1071.08 x 1081.50 x 1082.24 x 10^8Mercury0.403.32 min4Venus0.725.98 min7.2Earth1.008.3 min10Mars1.512.45 min15Ceres (asteroid) | 4.19 x 10$Jupiter2.823.24 min287.78 x 1085.243.16 min52Saturn1.42 x 10^99.5178.93 min95.1Uranus2.86 x 10^919.1158.53 min1914.50 x 10°249.83 minNeptuneHalley's comet 4.98 x 10^9Pluto30.130133.3276.39 min3335.90 x 10°2.15 x 101039.44327.35 min394.4Voyager 1Alpha Centauri | 4.13 x 1013 | 275466 |2,286,368 min1431,187min1,4302,754,660

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Given the conversion factors of 100 cm=1 m and 1609 m=1 mile, calculate how far away in miles Alpha Centauri would be in your model (model is attatched in image here)? Show your work if you can. Thanks so much :)

Object
Distance from Sun
kilometers A. U.
Light
Scale Distance:
travel
1 A.U.= 10
cm
time(min)
5.80 х 107
1.08 x 108
1.50 x 108
2.24 x 10^8
Mercury
0.40
3.32 min
4
Venus
0.72
5.98 min
7.2
Earth
1.00
8.3 min
10
Mars
1.5
12.45 min
15
Ceres (asteroid) | 4.19 x 10$
Jupiter
2.8
23.24 min
28
7.78 x 108
5.2
43.16 min
52
Saturn
1.42 x 10^9
9.51
78.93 min
95.1
Uranus
2.86 x 10^9
19.1
158.53 min
191
4.50 x 10°
249.83 min
Neptune
Halley's comet 4.98 x 10^9
Pluto
30.1
301
33.3
276.39 min
333
5.90 x 10°
2.15 x 1010
39.44
327.35 min
394.4
Voyager 1
Alpha Centauri | 4.13 x 1013 | 275466 |2,286,368 min
143
1,187min
1,430
2,754,660

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