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A rough average of the distance between Earth and Pluto = 3,667,000,000 miles

That's a difficult question to answer precisely. Pluto's average distance from the Sun is 39.4 AU. (An AU is an Astronomical Unit and is defined as the average distance between the center of the Earth and the center of the Sun.) One AU equals 92,955,807 million miles, or about 93 million miles, but Pluto's distance from the Sun ranges from 29.7 to 49.3 AU. So, depending on the orbits of Pluto and Earth, the distance between the two could be anywhere from 28.7 AU (Earth directly between Pluto and Sun when Pluto is closest to the Sun) to 50.3 AU (Earth directly opposite Sun from Pluto when Pluto is farthest from the Sun). However, keep in mind that an AU is an average and that Earth's actual orbit varies anywhere from 91 to 94.5 million miles.

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Pluto averages 5,913,520,000 km away from the Sun. (Pluto has a highly elliptical orbit; sometimes it's longer, sometimes shorter.) Light travels at 300,000 km per second, so light takes 19712 seconds to get to Pluto. That's 5 hours, 28 1/2 minutes.

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Pluto's 'year' ... the time it takes to complete one orbital revolution

around the sun ... is 248 earth years.

Since its discovery in 1930, it has completed only about 1/3rd of one 'year'.

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Pluto has an extremely elliptical orbit, so on average, light from the sun takes 340 minutes to reach Pluto, ie. 340 light minutes. Light from the sun takes about 8 minutes to reach Earth, ie. 8 light minutes. Light from Earth takes about 332 light minutes to get to Pluto. • This answer assumes that Earth and Pluto are aligned in orbit. If Pluto were at a different point in orbit, say at an angle of 150 degrees or more in relation to Earth and Sun, the time would be considerably longer, eventually more than twice as long.

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The distance to Pluto varies enormously due to it's eccentric and highly inclined orbit. [See related link]

Also, not only does Pluto orbit the Sun but so does the Earth, so the distance between them can vary.

The minimum distance is 4.2 billion km or 0.000443949832 light years.

The maximum distance is 7.5 billion km or 0.000792767558 light years.

For sensible light measurements: Light minutes can be used.

  • Min: 233.5 minutes: Just under 4 light hours.
  • Max: 417 minutes: Almost 7 light hours.

Pluto varies in distance between 28 and 50 AU or between 0.00044 and 0.00079 light years.
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Between about 4 hours and 7 hours, depending on what part of its orbit Pluto is - its orbit is fairly excentric.

Between about 4 hours and 7 hours, depending on what part of its orbit Pluto is - its orbit is fairly excentric.

Between about 4 hours and 7 hours, depending on what part of its orbit Pluto is - its orbit is fairly excentric.

Between about 4 hours and 7 hours, depending on what part of its orbit Pluto is - its orbit is fairly excentric.

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As Pluto takes 247.7 years to orbit the sun, and there are 52 weeks in a year it takes 247.7 x 52 weeks or 12,880.4 weeks.

As Pluto takes 247.7 years to orbit the sun, and there are 52 weeks in a year it takes 247.7 x 52 weeks or 12,880.4 weeks.

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Mercury, the first planet in our solar system can completely orbit around the sun in a mere 88 Earth Days, but nearly takes 60 days to complete a turn of its axis. Venus, which is the closet planet to Earth, takes 224 days to orbit around the sun. Oddly enough Venus takes longer to complete a rotation of its axis, 243 days, than it does to completely orbit the sun. Mars, one of the closest planets to Earth in size takes around 686.97 days to orbit around the earth and has a nearly identical day of 24.3 hours.

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That depends on where the light starts from.

The heat and light from the sun travel a distance from the sun to Pluto that varies over

the course of every 248 years, but averages out to 3.67 billion miles (5.91 billion km).

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Pluto and Earth both orbit the sun, so they get closer together and farther apart every year.

The closest together they can ever be, when Pluto is at perihelion and both planets are on

the same side of the sun, is 4.285 billion kilometers, or about 0.000453 of one light year.

The farthest apart they can ever be, when Pluto is at aphelion and the planets are on

opposite sides of the sun, is 7.4653 billion kilometers, or about 0.000789 of one light year.

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