Here's why:

* Astronomical Unit (AU): The average distance between the Earth and the Sun.

* 1 AU ≈ 149.6 million kilometers

* 1 meter = 0.000001 kilometers

To find the conversion, you divide 1 meter by the number of meters in 1 AU:

(1 meter) / (149,600,000,000 meters/AU) = 1.496 x 10^-11 AU