0
Why is the distance from the sun and earth is measured by light minutes and the distance from the sun and Pluto is measured by light years?
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
There is nothing in our solar system far enough away from anything else in our solar system to be measured in light years. Light from the sun takes 340 minutes to reach Pluto, ie. 340 light minutes. Apart from the sun, the nearest star to us, Proxima Centauri, is 4.3 light years away.
Wiki User
∙ 15y ago
Add your answer:
Earn +20 pts
How far away is Pluto from earth in minutes?
If you are talking about the number of minutes it takes get to Pluto, the answer is about 9 years. Measured in minutes, that's about:4.7 million minutes
How many minutes does it take for sun light to reach Pluto?
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.
What is the distance betwen earth and Pluto?
At its closest, Pluto is around 4,436,824,613 km from the sun. Taking off the earth to sun distance of 150 million km, the closest that Pluto will get to earth is around 4,286,800,000km. At its furthest Pluto would be around 6,050,000,000km from earth
The nearest distance from Pluto to Earth is?
At its closest, Pluto is around 4,436,824,613 km from the sun. Taking off the earth to sun distance of 150 million km, the closest that Pluto will get to earth is around 4,286,800,000km
How many earth minutes long is a Pluto day?
A day on Pluto is 6.4 Earth days, which is 153.3 hours, or 9,198 minutes long.
Why is the distace between earth and the sun measured in light minutes and the distance between neptune and the sun measured in light hours?
Because it only takes 8 minutes for sunlight to reach Earth, but it takes 4 hours to reach Neptune.
What is the actual distance in miles of the planet Pluto?
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.
How far from Pluto to earth?
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.
How far back in time are you looking when you observe Pluto through the telescope from a distance of 5910000000000?
At its nearest it is 245 minutes and its farthest it is 409 minutes of light travel time away. The farthest Pluto gets from Earth gets from us is about 4,650,000,000 miles.
What can be measured in kilometres?
Distance is measured in kilometres, such as the distance between two towns, or the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
How many miles is Pluto from the Earth?
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.
What is the average distance between earth and Pluto?
About 40 AU.
