In Science
- In anatomy, each neuron in the human brain is estimated to connect to 10,000 others.
- In astronomy,
- asteroid Number: 10000 Myriostos, Provisional Designation: 1951 SY, Discovery Date: September 30, 1951, by A. G. Wilson:List of asteroids (9001-10000)
- In climate, Summary of 10,000 Years is one of several pages of the Climate Timeline Tool: Exploring Weather & Climate Change Through the Powers of 10 sponsored by the National Climatic Data Center of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.
- In computers, NASA built a 10,000-processor Linux computer (it is actually a 10,240-processor) called Columbia
- In geography,
- Land of 10,000 Lakes is the nickname for the state of Minnesota.
- Land of 10,000 Trails or 10000trails.com was originally created in 1999 by the TN/KY Lakes Area Coalition. This organization is made up of individuals in West Tennessee and West Kentucky, who have an interest in seeing tourism grow by developing trails throughout their region.
- Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge is situated in the lower end of the Fakahatchee and Picayune Strands of Big Cypress Swamp and west of Everglades National Park in Florida.
- Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes in Alaska
- There is no ZIP Code 10000 in the US, however ZIP Code 10001 to 10292 is New York City
- In geology, a list of Largest Volcanic Eruptions in the Last 10,000 Years
- In physics,
- Myria is an obsolete prefix that denoted a factor of 10+4, ten thousand, or 10,000.
- Myrio is an obsolete prefix that denoted a factor of 10−4 or one ten-thousandth).
- 10,000 hertz, 10 kilohertz, or 10 kHz of the radio frequency spectrum falls in the very low frequency or VLF band and has a wavelength of 30 kilometres.
- In orders of magnitude (speed), the speed of a fast neutron is 10,000 km/s
- In orders of magnitude (volume), the volume of 10,000 cubic kilometres or 10,000 km3 equals 1 × 1013 m3. Lake Superior contains 12,232 cubic kilometres (km3) or 2,935 cubic miles of water.
- In scientific units,
- 10,000 square metres is one hectare
- In zoology, there are approximately 10,000 species of birds.
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