Pluto's distance from the Sun is from 4.4 to 7.4 billion kilometers. The speed of light is 300,000 km/sec. Light takes between from 4.1 hours and 6.8 hours to travel from the Sun to Pluto. For the mean distance of 5.9 billion km, it would take 5.46 hours.
Between 250 and 408 light-minutes. The average is about 340 light-minutes. The orbit of the dwarf planet Pluto is quite eccentric, meaning it's more of an oval than a circle. Aphelion (farthest distance) - 7,375,927,931 km (49.30503287 AU) Perihelion (closest distance) - 4,436,824,613 km (29.65834067 AU) The average distance is about 5,906,376,272 km (3,670,052,070 miles or 39.48168677 AU). Light from the sun takes 340 minutes to reach Pluto, so Pluto is also 340 light minutes from the sun (on average).
Distances within our solar system are not measured by light years but by Astronomical Units. Astronomical Units as well as light years are used because the numbers would be to large if kilometers or miles was used. Astronomical Units are based on the distance between the Earth and Sun which is approximately 150 million km or 93 million miles. Based on those figures Pluto is said to be 40 Astronomical Units from the sun.
It takes light from the sun about 318 minutes (a little over five hours) to reach Pluto. It takes sunlight about 8 minutes to reach earth, which means Pluto us about 310 light minutes from the Earth.
Pluto lies at an average distance of 5.9 billion kilometers from the sun. Thus, light from the sun requires about 5 hours 30 minutes to reach Pluto.
Pluto is in the same light year as earth.
about 360 minutes (or 6 hours).
4 years
It will reach pluto in 2014.
The closest Pluto gets to the Sun is 4.4 billion kilometers, which means that light from the Sun always takes longer than 4 hours to reach Pluto. For a rocket vehicle travelling at the speed that astronauts went to our Moon (less than 40,000 km/hr), it would take over 12 years to reach Pluto!
Pluto's semi-major axis (essentially its average distance from the sun) is 39.48 astronomical units or about 0.00062 light years.
1 Astronomical Unit = ~8.32 light minutes
It take's about eight minutes for sun to reach earth
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8 hours
It takes a ray of light, not years, but just a few hours (about 7 hours) to reach Pluto.
It will reach pluto in 2014.
About eight minutes for the sun's light to reach the earth, if that's what you're asking...
81/3 minutes.
8 minutes and 31 seconds
From the Earth, about one and a half seconds; from the sun, about 8 minutes.
The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second or 300,000 kilometers per second. It takes sunlight about 13 minutes to reach Mars. It takes about 81/2 minutes to reach Earth.
A day on Pluto is 6.4 Earth days, which is 153.3 hours, or 9,198 minutes long.
Light travels 186,282.4 miles per second in the vacuum of space. At that speed, it takes the light from the sun about 8 minutes and 18 seconds to reach Earth.
It takes 9 years, and the first satellite will reach Pluto in 2015. The satellite was launched on January 9, 2006. I cannot wait till we find out the deep secrets of Pluto...