How far away are all the planets from the sun in astronomical units?
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mercury: .4 AU\nvenus: .7 AU\nEarth: 1 AU\nmars: 1.5 AU\njupiter 5.2 AU\nsaturn: 9.5 AU\nuranus: 19.2 AU\nneptune: 30.1 AU\npluto: 39.4 AU
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Mercury is 57,910,000 km or 36,001,813 miles from the Sun, on average. It does vary by several percent because Mercury has a rather eccentric orbit.\n\nThe Earth orbits the sun at an average distance of 149,600,000 km or 93,004,167 miles. So the distance between Earth and Mercury is only about 57 million miles when the Earth and Mercury are on the same side of the Sun and about 129 million miles when they are on opposite sides of the Sun.
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some of the planets wouldn´t be perceptible with a naked eye, and i think Pluto would be as much as half inch away of the sun.\nWhy don't you do some math starting with the actual size of the sun and an average orange to make some kind of scale and do the same with all the planets and the distances. I think you have some work to do.
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The sun. The sun is, on average, 93 million miles from the earth. Pluto orbits the sun over 2 billion miles away. The nearest star is over 4 light years away. (Light travels 186,000 miles, or about 300,000,000 meters, in a second - try figuring out how far that is in a year!) The nearest galaxy is over 4 million light years away - an amazing distance!
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If both Jupiter and Uranus be in their shortest distances from saturn, then Jupiter will be the nearest. The distance will be around 5 A.U (Astronomical Unit)(1 A.U=150000000kms).
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Jupiter is way too close to be using light years.\n\nOne "Astronomical Unit" is the earth-sun distance and is approximately eight light minutes. Jupiter orbits at about five A.U. from the sun.  So even when Earth and Jupiter are at their most distant I would still expect that distance to be less than one light hour.
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Two I have seen are AU where 1 AU or Astronomical Unit is the distance between the Earth and Sun, and LD which is the Lunar Distance, approx 250000 miles.\n\nLargest? Parsec: A unit of astronomical length based on the distance from Earth at which stellar parallax is one second of arc and equal to 3.258 light-years, 3.086 × 10^13 kilometers, or 1.918 × 10^13 miles.
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The first step was to use Kepler's laws to get relative distances between the planets and the sun. So, it was known that mercury orbited at a distance of 40% of the earth's before the actual distances were known.\n\nAfter that, the actual distance to *one* object orbiting the sun was enough to give all the distances. Historically, that was done by paralax with asteroids that came close to the earth. Today it is done by bouncing radio beams off of other planets such as Venus and measuring the time it takes for the reflected beam to get back to us. Various probes also give a distance calibration.
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the "smart kid" is incorrect about the size of the sun.  It is only 109 times larger than the planet earth.  The Sun's diameter is 864,938 miles (1,391,980 km). This is almost 10 times larger than the planet Jupiter and about 109 times as big as the Earth. The volume of the Sun is 1,299,400 times bigger than the volume of the Earth; about 1,300,000 Earths could fit inside the Sun.
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Tiny Pluto is the last planet in our family. The dark, cold planet's average distance from the Sun is a little over 3.5 billion (3,500,000,000) miles. If you tried to step off this distance, you would be over two miles away from your Sun when you reached the location of Pluto. If you got on a jet and flew at 600 miles per hour from the Sun to Pluto, it would take 675 years. If you could drive the same distance, it would take over 5,700 years.
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(to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star")\n\nI know the planets one by one\nStarting with the one that's closest to the sun.\nMercury, Venus, Earth and Mars,\nAre the first four among the stars.\nJupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune\nAre the next planets in my tune.\nPluto's the farthest one from the sun.\nI know the planets one by one.\n\nIf you like it choose it as best answer...... It would be a "Thank You" for what I've done.
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If you write the number sequence 0,3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96, and add 4 to each number (4, 7, 10, etc) then divide by ten, you get the distance of each planet from the Sun, measured in astronomical units (1 a.u.=93 million miles=150 million kilometers).  This works out as Mercury 0.4, Venus 0.7, Earth 1.0, Mars 1.6, --- 2.8, Jupiter 5.2, and Saturn 10.0  This works out pretty accurately, but there was nothing at 2.8. Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781 at 19.6, right where another planet was supposed to go according to the Titius rule.   When Ceres was discovered in 1801, it was at 2.72, filling the gap.  Neptune, however is not near 38.8, but at 30.  Astronomers now believe the "law" is either a coincidence, or the result of billions of years of gravitational interactions.
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About 8.\n\n\nTo clear up any  ambiguity contributed here by some--- The average distance from the Earth to the Sun (or 1 astronomical unit) is 8.317 light minutes. Saying it's "more" or "less" sometimes is stating the obvious-- it's an AVERAGE. Saying it's "usually" different than its average, is nonsensical. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_minute
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As far as planets go, Mercury.  All the time.  No planet ever gets closer.  I'm not quite sure what these folks are trying to pull with "pluto" but the closest it ever gets to the sun is still over 26 times farther away than the earth's orbit.\n\nComets and asteroids can get really close to the sun, in fact there is a class of comets that we call "sungrazers" they actually fall into the sun and never return.
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Far less than a light year!\n\nConsidering that Pluto is on average about 5913520000 Km from the Sun and that 1 LY equals 9460800000000 Km, you have that Pluto is 0,000625055 LY far from the Sun.\n\nYes, 1 LY is a huge distance.
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93 million miles.  Otherwise known as an astronomical unit, or AU.
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Approximately 93,000,000 miles.  The distance varies because our orbit is not perfectly circular.