In what year will the sun hit the earth?

Answer 1

It changes a little bit during the year, because the earth's distance from the sun

changes slightly.

On the average, the easiest number to remember ... and pretty accurate too ... is

499 seconds. That's 8minutes 19seconds.

Answer 2

That's going to depend on where it starts out from.

-- From the International Space Station . . . 0.0000011 second

-- From the moon . . . 1.27 seconds

-- From the sun . . . 8 minutes 20 seconds

-- From the nearest star outside our solar system . . . 4.3 years

-- From the nearest galaxy outside our Milky Way . . . 2.5 million years

Answer 3

As you might know, the Earth orbits the Sun in an oval. When Earth is closer to the sun, It will take about 8 minutes and 10 seconds. When Earth is Further from the Sun, It will take about 8 minutes and 27 seconds. So I will say about 8 minutes and 20 seconds.

Answer 4

The distance from the Earth to the Sun varies because the Earth's orbit around the Sun is elliptical. So the time will vary by about 3% depending on the Earth's distance from the Sun. The average is about 497 seconds, or 8.28 minutes, or 8 minutes 17 seconds.

The time taken for the journey (from the Sun's surface to the Earth's) will vary between 8.14 and 8.42 minutes, which is 8 minutes 8 seconds at perihelion and 8 minutes 25 seconds at aphelion.

Calculating the Time

The semi-major axis of the Earth's orbit is 149,598,261 kilometers, less the maximum radius of the Sun (695,500 km) and the Earth (6378 km) gives the distance from the Sun's surface to the Earth's of 148,896,383 km. At the speed of light, 299792.458 km/sec, light takes about 497 seconds to travel this distance.

Answer 5

On the Twelfth of Never.

(Sorry, that was an OLD song from the 1950's.)

In about 4 billion years, plus or minus a bit, the Sun will begin to die. It will have consumed about half of its hydrogen, fusing the hydrogen into helium. At the temperature of the Sun, helium cannot fuse, and the helium acts as sort of a "nuclear ash" in the solar fireplace. So the nuclear fire will start to fade out.

The Sun supports its own mass against its own incredible gravity by generating heat and pressure in the core. When the Sun's nuclear reaction begins to fade, the Sun will begin to shrink as gravity starts winning the battle. As the Sun collapses, the core will get hotter and get higher and higher pressures. At some point when the temperature is a lot higher than it is now, the helium "ash" will begin to fuse into heavier elements like carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. The nuclear "fire" will suddenly get a LOT more intense, and the Sun will expand into a red giant.

The Sun will expand to consume Mercury for certain, and most probably Venus as well. The Earth may survive, or may also be consumed; that's tough to figure out. In any event, the Earth will become entirely unlivable, and if we humans have survived for so long, we will all be killed.

However, we know (at least in theory) how to move the Earth further out in the solar system, perhaps into orbit around Jupiter or Saturn. In the next billion years, we'll be able to do it - which will be PLENTY of time.

Answer 6

The distance from the Earth to the Sun varies because the Earth's orbit about the Sun is elliptical.At it's closest, the distance is 91,402,000 miles and it's farthest distance it is 94,512,000 miles.This gives an average distance of 92,957,000 miles. Light travels at 186,282 miles per second. Dividing the average distance by the speed of light gives 499.01225 seconds which is 8.3168708 minutes.

Answer 7

The sun is about 150 gigameters from Earth, or 93 million

miles. Light travels at 300 million meters per second, or

186000 miles per second.

Divide the distance by the speed

to get time, which is 500 seconds/or 8 minutes 20 seconds.<<< that is how long it takes for light to hit the earth hope this answer helps you :)

Answer 8

The Earth is slightly closer to the sun sometimes, and slightly farther away

from it at other times, so the light trip-time changes slightly.

Shortest . . . 8minutes 10seconds

Average . . . 8minutes 19seconds

Longest . . . 8minutes 27seconds

Answer 9

Approximately eight minutes is the time it takes for the rays of the sun to strike Earth's ozone layer at which point it is converted into light and heat.

8 min 20 seconds approximately

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according to me the exact time is 8 minutes,16.6 seconds.

- Ashish Kumar (New Delhi).

Answer 10

If you mean light from the Sun, then it takes eight minutes for the light to reach the Earth.