Understanding 600,000 miles 

To help you get a grasp on just what 600,000 miles looks like, I present the following for your enlightenment.

600,000 miles is:

1,056,000,000 yards.
3,168,000,000 feet.
38,016,000,000 inches.
965,606,400,000 millimeters (for you metric folks).

Just over 24 times around the Earth's equator.

98 round trips between Seattle and Miami, Florida.

1200 Indy 500 races.

23,076 round trips to the nearest Krispy Kreme.

43,857 laps of the old Nurburgring race course.

3.21 light-seconds (distance light travels in a second). A beam of light would cover 600,000 miles in 3.21 seconds.

240 oil changes, using 1080 quarts (270 gallons) of oil.

At my average of 30mpg, it takes 20,000 gallons of gas to go 600,000 miles. That is 80,000 Big Gulps of gas.

At a steady 60 mph it would take 9,998 hours (416 days) to travel 600,000 miles.

My overall average speed is probably around 25 mph so 600,000 miles represents about 24,000 hours of operation.

The Moon averages 238,900 miles from Earth. My car has traveled far enough to go to the Moon, back to Earth and then halfway back to the Moon.

The speed of sound is approx 742 mph. If your wife yelled at you from 600,000 miles away, it would take 808 hours (33 days) for you to hear her nagging on you to quit watching TV and help her with the laundry.