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Is 230 parsecs as long as The Mississippi River?

It's about 2,000,000,000,000 times as long as The Mississippi River
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The length of The Mississippi River is about 0.0000000001220 parsecs.
(from Lake Itasca, Minnesota through Pilottown, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana)
The total length of the Mississippi River is 0.0000000001220 parsecs. Prior to the development of soil erosion programs, the Mississippi River would carry approximately 400 million metric tons of sediment from its banks to the Gulf of Mexico every year.
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