How many minutes does it take for sun light to reach Pluto?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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).

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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.

Answer 6

Pluto is in the same light year as earth.

Answer 7

about 360 minutes (or 6 hours).

Answer 8

4 years