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11 wrz 2023 · Its orbit is not perfectly circular so at any given time during its orbit it can vary in terms of the distance that separates the two. On average it is 142 million miles (228 million kilometers) away from the Sun although it can be both closer and further away depending on its position in its orbit.
The Earth orbits the Sun once every 365.3 days, while farther planets such as Mars, completes an orbit around the Sun in 687 days. For comparison, Mars is 1.5 AU away from the Sun, which would translate to 227.94 million km / 141.70 million mi. Since the Earth moves around the Sun, the distance differs, with Earth’s closest point from the Sun ...
8 paź 2019 · The main reason for the planets to vary their distance is due to elliptical orbits. No planet in our Solar System orbits the sun in a perfect circle which means that the distance between planets is never the same. For this reason, to calculate the distance, we use the average to measure how far planets are from one another.
27 wrz 2023 · The distance between the Sun and Earth is equivalent to a unit of measure known as astronomical units (AU) and Pluto sits 39 AU away from our solar system’s only star. This means on average it is 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion kilometers) away from the Sun.
17 mar 2020 · March 17, 2020. In our Solar System, there are eight planets. The planets in order from the Sun based on their distance are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The planets of our Solar System are listed based on their distance from the Sun.
11 wrz 2023 · Final Thoughts. Found in the distant Kuiper Belt Eris is on average 6.29 billion miles from the Sun meaning it takes a whopping 9 hours for its light to reach Eris’s surface. Over its 557 Earth year orbit of the Sun it is at various distances from the Sun, sometimes being closer but also much further away.
11 wrz 2023 · In non-astronomical terms 45.8 AU is equivalent to 4,253,000,000 miles (6,847,000,000 kilometers) on average that Makemake orbits from the Sun. Its orbit is not perfectly circular however so it can be both closer and further away than this average depending on where it is in its 305 Earth years journey around the Sun.
5 wrz 2023 · Mercury’s distance from the Sun depends on where the planet is in its rotation. When Mercury is at its closest it is 29 million miles away from the Sun and at its furthest it is 43 million miles away. It takes a little over 3 minutes for the light of the Sun to reach the surface of Mercury. In context it takes just over 8 minutes for the same ...
11 wrz 2023 · On average Saturn is 886 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) from the Sun. This is 9.5 astronomical units (AU) with one unit equating to the average distance between the Sun and Earth. Essentially then Saturn is 9.5 times further away from the Sun than the Earth is.
7 wrz 2023 · Final Thoughts. It takes Venus 225 Earth days to go around the Sun in a single elliptical orbit which speaks to its respective closeness to our star compared to Earth. It ranges from 66.8 million miles to 67.7 million miles away from the Sun at any one time during these 225 days.
