yes the length of the sun stick does control the distance the shadow moves
In our system an astronomical unit is the average distance from the earth to the sun which is about 93 million miles. (92,957,000 miles) This is known as 1 AU. It is used to give some concept of how far other planet are away from the sun such as Pluto which is 39.53 AU.150 million kilometers or 93 million miles92,955, 807 miles, or 149,597,870,700 metres.
The average orbital distance of Saturn from the Sun (its semi major axial radius) is-- 1,433,449,370 km (890,700,000 miles) or 9.58 AU. *At Aphelion (Farthest) 1,513,325,783 km (940,337,046 miles) - (10.11 AU)At Perihelion (Closest) 1,353,572,956 km (841,071,241 miles) - (9.04 AU)Light from the Sun takes about 80 minutes to reach Saturn (mean distance is 79.69 light minutes), travelling the nearly 1.5 billion kilometers at 300,000 km/sec.It varies; closer in January, farther in June, but on average, about 92.5 million miles. 1,426,725,400 km
An Astronomical Unit is a unit of measurement roughly equal to the average distance between the Earth and the Sun; about 150 Million Kilometres.
An astronomical unit (AU) is the average distance of the earth from the sun.
150 million kilometers away from the sun
The average distance is 57.9 million kilometres.
The moons distance from Earth varies during its orbit, but is around 363,100 km or 225,620 miles at its closest (Perigee). Although this seems quite far, its only a small distance when compared to the Earth sun distance, which is 147,098,290km or 91,402,600 miles at its closest. So the moons closest distance to the sun will be around 146,735,200km.
Callisto's average distance from the sun is about 1,882,700,000 kilometers. It is the second farthest of Jupiter's four largest moons.
The Sun has no moons. Moons orbit Planets > Planets orbit the Sun.
To answer the question very literally: Yes. The Galilean satellites follow the same pattern of density versus increasing distance from Jupiter that the planets' density follows versus distance from the sun. The specific pattern is: No pattern at all. Earth ... 3rd from the sun ... is the most dense planet, while Saturn ... 6th planet from the sun ... is the least dense. So there is no "just as" to compare to.
There are no moons on the sun.
Both of these are moons of Jupiter. Because they orbit Jupiter both have the same distance from the Sun more or less.
Asteroids orbit the sun. Moons orbit planets and planets orbit the sun. So you could say the moons orbit the sun. However, moons are kept in their orbits by the gravity of their planet and planets are kept in orbit by the gravity of the sun. So in that sense, moons do not orbit the sun.
Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons, orbits at an average distance of about 778 million kilometers (484 million miles) from the Sun. This distance translates to approximately 5.2 astronomical units (AU), where 1 AU is the average distance from the Earth to the Sun.
Answer: you would have to be specific there are a lot of moons orbitting Jupiter Answer: The distance from Earth to Jupiter's moons is the same as the distance from Earth to Jupiter. The distance from Jupiter to its moons is insignificant, and can be ignored.
The moon is under the influence of both the Earth's and the Sun's gravitational pull.