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Pluto's jouney around the sun takes about 248.4 earth yaers
Pluto's distance from Earth varies from 2.6 to 4.6 billion miles depending on the position of Earth and Pluto in their orbits around the Sun. The distance from the Sun is 2.8 to 4.5 billion miles.
5.906 billion km, or 39.5 AU, where one AU is the Earth to Sun distance. Plutos distance from the sun varies a lot throughout its 248 year orbit, ranging from 7.375 billion km (49.3 AU) at its furthest to 4.436 billion km (29.7 AU) at its closest.
The distance between the Sun and Earth is 149,600,000 kilometers, and the distance between the Sun and Pluto is 5.9 billion kilometers. The gravitational pull decreases with an increase in distance. So, the gravitational pull of the Sun on Pluto is much less than its pull on Earth. So, in the model, Pluto’s orbit would have a much larger radius than Earth’s orbit.
Pluto's orbit is highly 'eccentric' compared to the orbits of the other planets, meaning thatthe sun is quite off-center, and Pluto's distance from it varies over a wide range during thecourse of its complete orbit.Averaged over a complete orbit, Pluto's distance from the sun is given as 5.91 billion kilometers.
When I was a kid Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune. Now it is further away. The distance between Pluto and earth will vary as Pluto orbits the sun--Pluto's orbit is fairly eccentric. At aphelion (furthest distance from the sun) Pluto is 48.871 AU (average earth/sun distance) from the sun. That is 4.542 billion miles. When the earth is on the opposite side of the sun, that would maximize the distance to Pluto at close to 4.635 billion miles (4.542 billion plus 93 million). Pluto will reach its next maximum distance from us in 2113, just over a century from now (2012). At its closest Pluto is 29.657 AU from the sun, or 2.757 billion miles. Some time during 1989 earth and Pluto were lined up on the same side of the sun, and the distance between them was minimized to roughly 2.664 billion miles.
Pluto's jouney around the sun takes about 248.4 earth yaers
Pluto's distance from Earth varies from 2.6 to 4.6 billion miles depending on the position of Earth and Pluto in their orbits around the Sun. The distance from the Sun is 2.8 to 4.5 billion miles.
5.906 billion km, or 39.5 AU, where one AU is the Earth to Sun distance. Plutos distance from the sun varies a lot throughout its 248 year orbit, ranging from 7.375 billion km (49.3 AU) at its furthest to 4.436 billion km (29.7 AU) at its closest.
The distance between the Sun and Earth is 149,600,000 kilometers, and the distance between the Sun and Pluto is 5.9 billion kilometers. The gravitational pull decreases with an increase in distance. So, the gravitational pull of the Sun on Pluto is much less than its pull on Earth. So, in the model, Pluto’s orbit would have a much larger radius than Earth’s orbit.
Pluto has an orbit that varies greatly in its distance from the sun. At a minimum, Pluto is 29.6 AUs from the Sun (about 2.8 billion miles). At a maximum, Pluto is 49.3 AUs from the Sun (about 4.5 billion miles). 1 AU is equal to 93 million miles, the distance from Earth to the Sun.
The average distance between Pluto and the sun is about 5870 million kilometres.
Pluto's orbit is highly 'eccentric' compared to the orbits of the other planets, meaning thatthe sun is quite off-center, and Pluto's distance from it varies over a wide range during thecourse of its complete orbit.Averaged over a complete orbit, Pluto's distance from the sun is given as 5.91 billion kilometers.
Pluto is located over three billion miles away from the sun. Because of this great distance, it takes Pluto 247 years to rotate around the Sun.
5,906,376,200 km
For 2012 and 2013, Pluto will be about 3.1 billion miles from Earth.Pluto's average distance from the Sun is 39.4 AU. (An AU is an Astronomical Unit and is defined as the average distance between the center of the Earth and the center of the Sun.) One AU equals 92,955,807 million miles. But Pluto's distance from the Sun ranges from 29.7 to 49.3 AU. So, depending on the orbits of Pluto and Earth, the distance between the two could be anywhere from 28.7 AU (Earth directly between Pluto and Sun when Pluto is closest to the Sun) to 50.3 AU (Earth directly opposite the Sun from Pluto when Pluto is farthest from the Sun).This represents a distance that varies from about 2.7 to 4.7 billion miles.---If you need to know the precise distance from Earth to any other celestial object at some particular moment in time, you can use the Stellarium planetarium program to calculate this. Stellarium is free open-source software available from www.stellarium.org.As of January 13, 2011 at 10:16 PM PST, Pluto was 32.89406876 AU from the Earth, a number which is changing minute-by-minute as both planets follow their orbital paths around the Sun.
The distance from Earth to Pluto depends on the point in their rotation around the Sun. However, it is generally considered that Pluto is 7.5 billion kilometers from the Earth.