how fare is the earth from the sun?
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Ninety-Three million miles.
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The sun will rise from west.
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Earth rotates. Sun on one side.
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The Sun is roughly 100 times the diameter of Earth, which is about one million times the volume.
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Mass.\n\nStuff which weighs a lot sucks other stuff towards it.\n\nIt's the sun's mass which keeps the Earth from flying off in a straight line into space.\n\nAnd it's the Earth's mass which pulls us towards its centre.
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The sun always travels from east to west.  No matter where you are or time of year
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The air gets thinner with altitude and with that so does the temperature. \n\nBesides, to say that you're approaching the sun when you've not even left earth's atmosphere is like saying you're approaching New York when you've only checked in your luggage at Heathrow.
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The Earth orbits the sun at an average speed of 67,000 mph in a counterclockwise direction when viewed from above it's North Pole.
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Since space is very close to being a vacuum, the only way energy can travel from the sun to the Earth is through the process of radiation (as opposed to conduction or convection).  Radiation relies on energy traveling in electromagnetic waves through the vacuum and hitting Earth (thus heating the Earth).  In a vacuum, all electromagentic waves, light included, travel at exactly 299,792,458 m/s, this comes out to about an 8 minute travel time from the surface of the sun.\n\nBut your question of "How many seconds does it take for the sun to warm up the earth?" doesnt really make any sense beyond what I just explained.
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3,634,066,905 miles!\n\nMercury is an average 35,983,095 miles from the sun.\n\nPluto is an average 3,670,050,000 miles from the sun.\n\nThat's just an average though! Both of their distances from the sun vary a lot.
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The earth's rotation.
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It takes light 8 minutes (plus or minus seconds) to travel from the Sun to the Earth. So if the sun 'Died' this second, it will take 8 minutes till we know about it, i.e. the lights go out and the heating is turned off.\n\nHopefully we will still have the stars and moon to merrily sooth us into our freezing tombs.
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for the earth to get closer to the sun, the sun would have to grow or somehow become heavier
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Earth revolves around this shinning star called a sun and it takes about 365 to 366 days to make a round trip around the sun.\n\n60 minutes and not 100 minutes --> Ever looked at a globe and the time zones? \n\nweek consists of 7 days --> Again with the Earth revolving around the sun.
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Earth is revolving in orbit, held in place by the Sun's gravitational pull
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By the pull of earth's gravity
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Well the earth orbit's the sun \n2AU * PI / year\n\nAn AU is the average distance of the Earth from the sun in it's orbit.  Although all orbit's are ellipses, the equation of a circle should approximate close enough.\n\n1AU =149.598×10^6 km.\n2AU = 299196000 km \n\nThe earth moves really fast so we should convert years into seconds.  The earth orbits the sun once about every 365.25 days (the .25 is why we have leap years).\n\n365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60 = 31557600 seconds.\n\nSo now all we must figure out to get the speed in km/sec we calculate \n(299196000 * PI) / 31557600\n=29.785280109497\n\nSo the Earth orbits the sun at a speed of 29.785280109497 km/sec.  That's pretty fast!\n\nWikipedia gives a max orbital speed of 29.783 km/sec and a min orbital speed of 29.291 km/sec, so my estimate was pretty darn close.