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At its furthest (aphelion) 0.467 AU and at its nearest (perihelion) 0.307 AU.
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun.Mercury's orbit is severely elliptical meaning that the planet's distance to the Sun varies. At its closest, Mercury is 46 million kilometers (28.5 million miles or 0.31 AU) from the Sun, and at its farthest it is nearly 70 million kilometers (43 million miles or 0.46 AU) from the Sun.The mean distance is 58 million kilometers (36 million miles or 0.39 AU).
Mars is the closest. Mars orbital period is 687 days. Earth, as we all know, is 365 days. The next planet out, Jupiter, revolves around the Sun in 12 years. Saturn for information takes almost 30 years. Saturn
The distance to the sun is one astronomical unit (AU). The earth-sun distance is the basis for the AU.
Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system that are less than one astronomical unit (AU) away from the Sun. Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, with an average distance of about 0.39 AU, while Venus is next, with an average distance of about 0.72 AU.
0.387 is the average distance from the Sun to Mercury in AU. Note: AU=astronomical unit
Mercury's Astronomical units is .39 rounded off or if you want to be semi precise it would be .3870320856
At its furthest (aphelion) 0.467 AU and at its nearest (perihelion) 0.307 AU.
Mercury averages around this distance from the sun.
No. At Aphelion (furthest distance) it is 69,816,900 km or 0.467 AU from the sun. At perihelion (nearest) it is 46,001,200 km or 0.387 AU from the sun.
Aphelion: 0.466697 AUPerihelion: 0.307499 AUMean: 0.387098 AU
In our solar system, the planets Mercury and Venus orbit at a distance less than 1 AU. Since the Earth orbits at an "average" distance of one astronomical unit, you might also argue that Earth, owing to orbital eccentricity, sometimes is closer to the Sun than one AU.
Mercury is closer to the Sun than the Earth.
On the average, one. The astronomical unit is the distance from the sun to the earth. Since Mercury is inside earth's orbit and the distance between Earth and Mercury can vary by the full width of Mercury's orbit around the sun, the average is the distance between the Earth and the sun.
Mercury's average distance from the sun is about 0.39 astronomical units (AU), which is roughly 58 million kilometers (36 million miles).
Saturn is at a distance of about 9.5 AU from the Sun.Saturn is at a distance of about 9.5 AU from the Sun.Saturn is at a distance of about 9.5 AU from the Sun.Saturn is at a distance of about 9.5 AU from the Sun.
Mercury orbits the Sun at from .31 AU to .46 AU (46 to 69 million kilometers). Pluto orbits the sun at from 30 AU to 49 AU. (4400 to 7400 million kilometers). So both have a considerably elliptical orbit, but generally speaking Pluto is about 100 times as far from the Sun as Mercury.