How far is each planet from its nearest neighbor?

Answer 1

All the planets orbit the Sun. They do so at different speeds and all have different lengths of orbits. So the distance between any two planets is constantly changing and no definitive answer can be given. Below are the approximate distances in kilometres and miles that each planet averages from the Sun. The figures cannot be used though to say how far each planet is from the next.

Mercury averages about 57,910,000 kilometres or 35,985,274 miles from the sun.

Venus: 108,200,000 or 67,235,480.

Earth: 149,600,000 or 92,961,440.

Mars: 227,940,000 or 141,641,916.

Jupiter: 778,330,000 or 483,654,262.

Saturn: 1,426,980,000 or 886,725,372.

Uranus: 2,870,990,000 or 1,784,033,186.

Neptune: 4,497,070,000 or 2,794,479,298.

Pluto, no longer considered as a planet, averages 5,913,520,000 kilometres or 3,674,661,328 miles from the sun.

In terms of our year, this is how long it takes each of them to orbit the sun. For example, Jupiter takes 11.86 of our years to complete a full orbit of the Sun.

Mercury 0.24

Venus 0.62

Earth 1.00

Mars 1.88

Jupiter 11.86

Saturn 29.46

Uranus: 84.01

Neptune: 164.79

Pluto: 248.54

Answer 2

Mercury is the closest planet to its nearest neighbor Venus at a minimum distance of about 77 million kilometers. The next closest pair of planets are Earth and Mars which can be around 54.6 million kilometers apart when they are on the same side of the Sun. The other planets in the solar system are much further apart from their nearest neighbors.

Answer 3

All the planets are moving at different speeds so their distances from each other are always changing, so it is not really possible to answer that question.

Answer 4

about 2km