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How long is 2 inches?

It's about 0.000000002 times as long as The Circumfrence of Earth
The length of The Circumfrence of Earth is about 1,577,756,500 inches.
(Equatorial)
The Earth — not a perfect sphere, but rather an oblate spheroid with bulged middle — has an Equatorial circumference of approximately 1,577,756,500 inches. The first airplane trip around the circumference of the Earth (with a few stops along the way), was completed in 1924 by the United States Army Air Service, and took 175 days.
It's about 0.0000000002 times as long as The Distance from Earth to the Moon
The length of The Distance from Earth to the Moon is about 15,135,300,000 inches.
(a.k.a. Luna) (median of semi-major axis, or apigee, and semi-minor axes, or perigee)
The orbit of the Moon around the Earth is elliptical, with an average distance of 15,135,300,000 inches from center-to-center. About 428.376 kg of moon rock have been cataloged on the Earth, from the American Apollo and Soviet Luna Programs, and from samples that have been extracted from meteorites.
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