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The exact distance between Earth and the Sun varies with its position in its orbit, which is elliptical. The average distance (the mean distance) between the Earth and the Sun is about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles).
The average distance from the Earth to the Sun is also called 1 astronomical unit (or AU). This is established as 149, 597, 870.7 kilometers (92,955,887.6 miles).
- Aphelion (when the Earth is the farthest from the Sun) occurs around the first week of July. The distance is about 152 million km (94.4 million miles).
- Perihelion (when the Earth is closest to the Sun) occurs in the first week of January. The distance is about 147 million km (91.3 million miles).
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 12y agoOn average it is around 93 million miles. The earth-sun distance is known also as 1 astronomical unit, or one AU.
(149,598,000 kilometers)
The Earth orbits in an elliptical path around the Sun, with an average distance of about 93,000,000 miles.
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∙ 15y agoThe Earth's distance from the Sun is about 93,000,000 miles. The Earth's orbit isn't a perfect circle; it is an ellipse. But the eccentricity of Earth's orbit is fairly small, and the other numbers I use are approximations, so the error isn't great. . The circumference of a circle is 2 times the radius of the circle times "pi", which is approximately 3.1416.
So based on that formula, Earth travels about 584,337,600 miles each year.
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∙ 15y agoAs the sun is itself a star, technically that would be zero mile. The next nearest star is about 4.3 light years away, or 2.5 x 1013 miles. Written out, that would be:
25,000,000,000,000 miles, or 25 trillion miles.
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∙ 7y agoThe average distance from the Sun to the Earth is about 93,000,000 miles, or 150,000,000 kilometers. Our orbit isn't perfectly circular, however, so the distance varies by about 3% over the course of the year.
At our closest point to the Sun, called "perihelion" about January 4, it's about 91,500,000 miles, and at the farthest point, aphelion, around July 2, it's about 94,500,000 miles.
The distance of the earth from the sun is roughly 93 million miles.
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Yes but Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. According to radiometric dating and other sources of evidence, Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago. Earth's gravity interacts with other objects in space, especially the Sun and the Moon, which is Earth's only natural satellite. Earth orbits around the Sun in 365.256 days, a period known as an Earth sidereal year. During this time, Earth rotates about its axis about 366.256 times.[n 6] Earth's axis of rotation is tilted with respect to its orbital plane, producing seasons on Earth. The gravitational interaction between Earth and the Moon causes tides, stabilizes Earth's orientation on its axis, and gradually slows its rotation. Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System and the largest and most massive of the four rocky planets. Earth's lithosphere is divided into several rigid tectonic plates that migrate across the surface over many millions of years. About 71% of Earth's surface is covered with water, mostly by oceans. The remaining 29% is land consisting of continents and islands that together contain many lakes, rivers and other sources of water that contribute to the hydrosphere. The majority of Earth's polar regions are covered in ice, including the Antarctic ice sheet and the sea ice of the Arctic ice pack. Earth's interior remains active with a solid iron inner core, a liquid outer core that generates the Earth's magnetic field and a convecting mantle that drives plate tectonics. Within the first billion years of Earth's history, life appeared in the oceans and began to affect the Earth's atmosphere and surface, leading to the proliferation of anaerobic and, later, aerobic organisms. Some geological evidence indicates that life may have arisen as early as 4.1 billion years ago. Since then, the combination of Earth's distance from the Sun, physical properties and geological history have allowed life to evolve and thrive. In the history of life on Earth, biodiversity has gone through long periods of expansion, occasionally punctuated by mass extinction events. Over 99% of all species that ever lived on Earth are extinct. Estimates of the number of species on Earth today vary widely; most species have not been described. Over 7.7 billion humans live on Earth and depend on its biosphere and Natural Resources for their survival. Humans have developed diverse societies and cultures; politically, the world has around 200 sovereign states.
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∙ 12y agoThe sun has a mean distance from Earth of about 150 million kilometers (93 million miles).
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∙ 14y agoAbout 150 million kilometers.
About 150 million kilometers.
About 150 million kilometers.
About 150 million kilometers.
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∙ 11y agoAbout 93 million miles on average.
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∙ 12y agoThe average distance is 93,000,000 miles.
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When the distance between the earth and the sun is minimum?
The distance between the earth and the sun is about 150 million km .
What is the relative size and distance relationships among the sun earth and moon?
The earth's diameter is 3.67 times the moon's, and 0.0092 of the sun's diameter. The distance to the sun is 391 times the distance to the moon. The moon's diameter is 0.283 of the earth's, and 0.0025 of the sun's. The distance to the earth is 0.0026 times the distance to the sun. The sun's diameter is 109 times the earth's, and 400 times the moon's diameter. On the average over a month, the earth and moon are at equal distances from the sun.
What is the Average distance of the earth from the sun during its orbit is?
150G meters is the average distance of the earth form the sun.
Which planet has a distance from the sun that is about 150 percent of earth's distance from the sun?
Mars.
How does the distance of the earth from the sun compare to the distance of the gas giant from the sun?
Jupiter is 5 times as far away from the Sun as Earth, Saturn is 10 times as far.
How far is the earths moon from mercury?
Varying from the the distance from the Earth to the Moon + the distance from the sun to the earth + the distance from mercury to the sun, to the distance from the earth to the sun - the distance from mercury to the sun - the distance from the earth to the moon
Distance from the earth?
distance earth from the sun
Earth and sun distance?
The distance from Sun to Earth is about 150 million kilometers.
What is the distance from sun to Earth in Au's?
An AU, or astronomical unit, is defined as the average distance from Earth to the Sun. Therefore, the distance from Earth to the Sun equals 1 AU.
An astronomical unit is the average distance between the?
One AU is the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
What is this distance from earth to the sun in atomic units?
The distance to the sun is one astronomical unit (AU). The earth-sun distance is the basis for the AU.
Which is the closest distance of the earth from the sun?
it is about 92 million miles from the earth to the sun at its closest distance.
What do you call it when earth is at its max distance from sun?
the max distance from earth to sun is known as aphelion
What is the distance of the sun called?
I think you mean the distance from the Earth to the Sun. This distance is measured in Astronomical Units (AU)
How far away is the sun in miles?
It varies - the moon orbits the Earth so the distance will change depending on Earth's distance from the sun as well as the moon's distance from the Earth. The minimum distance from the moon to the sun is when the Earth is closest to the sun and the moon is in new moon phase (meaning its closer to the sun than the Earth). The distance from the moon to the sun is: Earth's distance at perihelion - moon's distance from Earth at apogee. This works out to 146,692,370 km. The maximum distance from the moon to the sun is when the Earth is farthest from the sun and the moon is in full moon phase. The distance from the moon to the sun is Earth's distance at aphelion + moon's distance from Earth at apogee. This works out to 150,503,400 km.
What is the distance of the sun and the moon?
The Sun is at a distance of about 150 million kilometers from Earth; the Moon is at a distance of about 380,000 kilometers from Earth.
The distance from the sun and earth?
Earth is the third planet from the Sun at a distance of 149.6 million kilometers or 1 astronomical unit (AU) on average.
