Light-minute

A Light-minute or lightminute is a unit of measurement of length.

• It is an astrographic scale measurement.
• It is a standard Imperial metric.

---

Please refer to the following AAB Library Data for more information:
Starship:

• Speed of Travel
  • Light Speed (c)
  • FTL
  • NAFAL (STL)
  • Astronomical Unit (AU)
  • Light-second (ls)
  • Light-minute (lm)
  • Light-hour (lh)
  • Light-day (ld)
  • Light-week (lw)
  • Light-year (ly)
  • Parsec (pc)

---

Description (Specifications)

A light-minute is specifically the distance light travels in a vacuum over a period of one minute.

• The common abbreviation is lm.

One (Imperial) light-minute is equal to:

1. About 1.799×10⁷ kilometers
2. About 0.12024 astronomical units
3. About 5.82936×10^-7 parsecs

It is based on the standard Imperial minute.

History & Background (Dossier)

• The light-minute is often used to measure distances between worlds within systems, especially in reference to distance relative to communication and/or sensor lag.
• The preferred unit of general measurement for such distances is the astronomical unit (AU).

References & Contributors (Sources)

This page uses content from Wikipedia. The original article was at Light-second#Use_in_astronomy. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. The text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Wikipedia Table - Lightminute
• Contributor: WHULorigan