what is the distance to sun?
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It averages between 91 and 94 million miles. You can check this by multiplying the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) by the time it takes light to reach the Earth (8 min, 16 sec.)\n\n30 NOV 06, 1711 hrs, GMT.
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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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lightspeed is about 186,000 miles per second and the sun is about 93,000,000 miles away.  Divide and you get 500 seconds, which is 8 minutes 20 seconds.
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Earth has an average distance of 149,630,000 kilometers from the Sun,or around 93 million miles.\n\nThe term average is used since Earth's orbit is elliptical.  So it is closer at some particular months than in others.  It is closest in January and farthest in early July, 91,400,000miles (147,094,041km) and 94,400,000 miles (151,922,074km) respectively.\n\nThe moon is 384401 km or 238855 miles.  Again this is average due to the moon's elliptical orbit.  More info: apogee (farthest distance from the Earth) is\n406700 km, and perigee (distance of closest approach to the Earth)\nis 356400 km.
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Astronomers determined the size and shape of our galaxy and measured distances to other stars using the “parallax method” (and eventually other methods using the star’s light spectrum).  Unfortunately, these methods do little to help us find out the exact distance to our very own star, the Sun.  Surprisingly, to get the distance to the sun, astronomers first had to determine the exact distance to Venus!\n\nWith the invention of radar, scientists were able to measure the distance to Venus very precisely.  By timing how long it took the radar beam to travel at the speed of light to Venus and back, the total distance to the object can be determined from the equation:\n\nDistance = (Speed of Light) X (Total Time)/2\n\nThe reason the total time is divided by two is to get just the distance from the Earth to the object.\nEarth-Sun Distance = (Earth-Venus Distance) / (Cos q)\n\nUsing trigonometry, astronomers now know that the “Astronomical Unit” = 92,955,820.5 miles (149,597,892 kilometers).  This incredible degree of accuracy is possible because the speed of light is known very precisely and extremely accurate clocks are used to time the radar reflection.  Radar can’t be used to determine the distance to the Sun directly because the Sun doesn’t have a solid surface to reflect the radar efficiently.
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Mean distance from earth149.6×10^6 km or (92.95×10^6 mi)\nIt would take about 8.31 minutes at the speed of light to go from earth to sun.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun
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Our sun is about 93 million miles away. To put that into perspective if you hopped into a magic race car, like the ones that race in NASCAR, but you never needed gas and it drove itself and you could go 200 miles an hour non-stop for the whole trip, it would take a little over 50 years to get to the sun. Fortunately spacecraft can go much faster than race cars. The sun is very close to us compared to the other stars. They are so far away it takes light, which travels very fast(186 thousand miles per second), years (or hundreds of years) to reach us from them.
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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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I'm not a physisist nor an astronomist, just crunching some numbers.\n\nAllowing that the speed of light is 186,000 mps, then:\n\nMercury (36) = 3 1/2 minutes\nVenus (67.2) = 6 minutes\nEarth (93)   = 8 1/2 minutes\nMars (141.7) = 13 minutes\nJupiter (484) = 43 minutes\nSaturn (887)  = 1 hour, 19 minutes\nUranus (1785) = 2 hours\nNeptune (2795)= 4 hours, 10 minutes\nPluto (3675)  = 6 1/2 hours\n\n*number in () is the distance in millions of miles from the sun\n*all times were rounded
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The average distance to the sun is 92900000 miles, though it is changing. First I should say that the Earth's orbit around the Sun is elliptical, not perfectly circular, so the Earth-Sun distance is changing as we speak just from the Earth traveling in its orbit around the Sun.\n\nIs the orbit itself changing? Well, there are some long-period oscillations, but those are very small, and don't imply that we're systematically moving towards or away from the Sun.\n\nThere is an effect which is making us move very slowly away from the Sun. That is the tidal interaction between the Sun and the Earth. This slows down the rotation of the Sun, and pushes the Earth farther away from the Sun. The principle for the Sun-Earth system should be the same. But how big of an effect is this? It turns out that the yearly increase in the distance between the Earth and the Sun from this effect is only about one micrometer (a millionth of a meter, or a ten thousandth of a centimeter). So this is a *very* tiny effect.\n\nThere is another effect which is also small, but somewhat bigger than the tidal effect. The Sun is powered by nuclear fusion, which means the Sun is continuously transforming a small part of its mass into energy. As the mass of the Sun goes down, our orbit gets proportionally bigger. However, over the entire main sequence lifetime of the Sun (about 10 billion years), the Sun will only lose about 0.1% of its mass, which means that the Earth should move out by just ~150,000 km (small compared to the total Earth-Sun distance of ~150,000,000 km). If we assume that the Sun's rate of nuclear fusion today is the same as the average rate over those 10 billion years (a bold assumption, but it should give us a rough idea of the answer), then we're moving away from the Sun at the rate of ~1.5 cm (less than an inch) a year. I probably don't even need to mention that this is so small that we don't have to worry about freezing.
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The distance from the earth to the sun is about 93 million miles. The speed of light is about 186,000 miles per second. Dividing shows that it tkes light about 500 seconds to go from the sun to the earth. That's 8 minutes 20 seconds.
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About 92.9 million miles on average. This is also 147 million kilometers. The actual amount varies over time because the earth's orbit isn't a perfect circle. In astronomical terms, this is *very* close. If you made a scale model with the distance from the earth to the sun as 1 inch, then the distance to the nearest star (other than the sun) would be 4.3 *miles*.
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Of course the Moon is closer than the Sun.\n\nThe average distance from the earth to the sun, the semimajor axis of its orbit, is 149,597,890 km.\n\nMoon's orbit is elliptical: its average orbital radius is 384401 km, apogee (farthest distance from the Earth) is 406700 km, and perigee (distance of closest approach to the Earth) is 356400 km.
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The average distance between the Earth and the Sun is 149,590,787 km or 92,951,640 mi. This distance is called an Astronomical Unit (AU). The orbit of the Earth deviates a bit from a circle, so the distance between the Earth and the Sun isn't always the same. The Earth is closest to the Sun (in the perihelion of the Earth's orbit) around 4 January, when it is winter in the northern hemisphere of the Earth and summer in the southern hemisphere, and is furthest from the Sun (in the aphelion of the Earth's orbit) around 4 July, when it is summer in the north and winter in the south.\n\nThe difference between the distances on 4 January and 4 July is about 3 percent, which corresponds to about 5 million km or 3 million mi.
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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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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.