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.
Instead, astronomers measure distances to objects which are outside our solar system in light-years. A light-year (ly) is the distance that light can travel in one year in a vacuum (empty space). The speed of light is about 186,000 miles or 300,000 kilometers per second.arallax is a common method used to measure the distance to stars.  Suppose you look at an object (like a tree or far away building),  and measure the angle to it in referen â¦ ce to something known. Then  you move a specific distance (say 100 meters), and take the same  angle measurement.