REarth\text{REarth}

Earth radius

Length

The Earth radius here is the mean volumetric radius, 6,371 kilometres, the radius of a sphere with the same volume as the Earth. It is the value used in almost every geophysical formula that treats the planet as a sphere, and it is the standard unit for reporting the sizes of rocky exoplanets.

Watch out: The Earth is an oblate spheroid, so there is no single radius. The equatorial radius is 6,378.137 km and the polar radius 6,356.752 km, a difference of 21 km. The IAU nominal value used for exoplanet radii is the equatorial one, so an exoplanet quoted at "1.0 R⊕" is being compared against 6,378 km rather than the 6,371 km here.

1 REarth\text{REarth} 6,371,000 m\text{m}

One earth radius in every length unit

3.94183e+41Planck length (lP)
6.37100e+21femtometer (fm)
6.37100e+18picometer (pm)
1.20394e+17bohr radius (a0)
6.37100e+16angstrom (Å)
6.37100e+15nanometer (nm)
6,371,000,000,000micrometer (μm)
250,827,000,000thou (thou)
18,059,500,000point (pt)
6,371,000,000millimeter (mm)
1,504,960,000pica (pc)
637,100,000centimeter (cm)
250,827,000inch (in)
63,710,000decimeter (dm)
62,706,700hand (hh)
31,670,000link (li)
20,902,200foot (ft)
20,902,200US survey foot (ftUS)
6,967,410yard (yd)
6,371,000meter (m)
3,483,710fathom (ftm)
1,266,800rod (rd)
316,700chain (ch)
34,400.6cable length (cb)
31,670furlong (fur)
6,371kilometer (km)
3,958.76mile (mi)
3,440.06nautical mile (nmi)
1,319.59league (lea)
6.371megameter (Mm)
1Earth radius (REarth)this unit
0.0212514light-second (ls)
0.0165739lunar distance (LD)
0.00915768solar radius (Rsun)
0.000354189light-minute (lmin)
0.0000425875astronomical unit (AU)
6.73415e-10light-year (ly)
2.06470e-10parsec (pc)
2.06470e-13kiloparsec (kpc)
2.06470e-16megaparsec (Mpc)
2.06470e-19gigaparsec (Gpc)