No orbit is a perfect circle. Orbital paths are elliptical. So the distance from the sun to the Earth fluctuates during the course of a year from a minimum of 147.1 million kilometers (91 million miles) to a maximum of 152.1 million kilometers (94.5 million miles).
The light year is too large a unit to use within the solar system. It would result in inconveniently small numbers.
Probably the largest single quantity to talk about in the solar system is the distance across Pluto's orbit ...
like double Pluto's average distance from the sun. That distance is roughly 7.13 billion miles.
That's about 10.6 light-hours, or 0.001214 light-year.
Using the light-year to describe distances in the solar system is like using the inch or foot to describe
grains of salt. Sure, you can do it, but the numbers you get are really awkward.
For the same reason you probably don't report the length of your trip to your job in millimeters or inches. The numbers would just simply be too big and unwieldy. For example, the nearest star system to the sun is the Alpha Centauri triplet. It's distance is rounded to 9,460,890,000,000 kilometers (5,878,700,000,000 miles). Again ... out of several billion observable stars, we're talking about the nearest one. To put it another way ... kilometers and miles may be 'standard' for everyday life here on the little stone where we live, but they're completely inadequate to handle the dimensions we encounter once we board our imagination and leave the earth. New 'standards' were developed that are able to handle the job.
The Earth, like any other object in orbit, goes around the Sun in an elipse. Sometimes Earth is nearer to the Sun, at other times it is farther away.
The Earth's orbit around the sun isn't a perfect circle, it's more of an ellipse due to other gravitational forces in our solar system.
The distance from the Sun to the Earth is one AU. The Moon orbits the Earth and sometimes is closer and sometimes further away from the Sun, so on average, it is also 1 AU from the Sun.
About 0.000001 nm on average 108,200,000 is the average distance
The distance between neptune and the sun is 15.0935 astronomical units (AU).
Jupiter is 483.6 million miles (778.3 million km) away from the Sun. (The given figure is the average distance)
Pluto is (on average) 2,987 million miles away from the sun.
Earth. This is how an astronomical distance is defined, Earths average distance from the sun.
The average distance of Chiron to the sun is 1224,557km away
The distance from the Sun to the Earth is one AU. The Moon orbits the Earth and sometimes is closer and sometimes further away from the Sun, so on average, it is also 1 AU from the Sun.
its to far away
The sun is one Earth distance (also known as an astronomical unit) from the Moon. This is because the Moon and Earth orbit the sun together, at an average distance called the Earth-Moon barycenter. This is approximately 93 million miles away from the sun, on average; the Moon can be up to a quarter-million (250,000) miles closer or further from the sun at any given time, depending on where it is in its orbit.
Earths gravity isn't strong enough to pull it into the Earth, however it is strong enough to keep it from drifting away.
Our moons average distance from the Earth is 384,399 km (238,854 miles) on average.
About 0.000001 nm on average 108,200,000 is the average distance
The average distance to the Sun is about 150 million km.
On average, the Sun is 149.5 million kilometers (92.8 million miles) away from Earth. The Earth goes in an elliptical orbit, so the distance differs. On January 3, we're 147 m. kilometers away, and on June 24, we're 152 m. kilometers away.
Because of the Earths atmosphere, the distance from the Sun, does not affect the temperature on the surface of the Earth. In the northern hemisphere, we are closer to the Sun in winter and the furthest away in summer.
141,633,263 miles, on average. This distance can vary though depending on where Mars is in its orbit.