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How far is 8 Astronomical Units?

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One Astronomical Unit is the mean distance between the Sun and the Earth. The Earth's orbit is an ellipse, so sometimes Earth is less than 1 AU from the Sun, and sometimes it is a bit farther out.

The precise value of the AU is currently accepted as 149,597,870,000 meters, which is 93 million miles approximately.

So 8 AU is eight times that far. Google has a really neat calculator and conversion feature, so I typed "8 Astronomical Units in miles" into the Google search box and got this answer:

8 Astronomical Units = 743,647,101 miles

Pretty neat, huh?!?!

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