He passed the preliminary and went on to the finals. a boxing match or other athletic contest that takes place before the main event on the program: A preliminary was fought at 8:00. a preliminary examination, as of a candidate for an academic degree.
A light year is a measure of distance, or the distance a particle of light will travel through a pure vacuum in one Earth year. This distance is approximately 5.8785 x 1012 [5.87 trillion] miles, or 9.4605 x 1012 [9.46 trillion] kilometers.n one year, light can travel about 10 trillion km. One light-year is equal to 9,500,000,000,000 kilometers. A light year is the distance covered by light in one year travelling at 186,000 miles per second.
The year number on the Jewish calendar represents the number of years since creation, calculated by adding up the ages of people in the Tanakh back to the time of creation. To calculate the Jewish Year from our Gregorian calendar, you subtract 1,240 and then add 5,000. For example, if the year is 2005, subtract 1,240 to get 765.