How many miles is Pluto from Earth?

Answer 1

For 2012 and 2013, Pluto will be about 3.1 billion miles from Earth.

Pluto's average distance from the Sun is 39.4 AU. (An AU is an Astronomical Unit and is defined as the average distance between the center of the Earth and the center of the Sun.) One AU equals 92,955,807 million miles. But Pluto's distance from the Sun ranges from 29.7 to 49.3 AU. So, depending on the orbits of Pluto and Earth, the distance between the two could be anywhere from 28.7 AU (Earth directly between Pluto and Sun when Pluto is closest to the Sun) to 50.3 AU (Earth directly opposite the Sun from Pluto when Pluto is farthest from the Sun).

This represents a distance that varies from about 2.7 to 4.7 billion miles.

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If you need to know the precise distance from Earth to any other celestial object at some particular moment in time, you can use the Stellarium planetarium program to calculate this. Stellarium is free open-source software available from www.stellarium.org.

As of January 13, 2011 at 10:16 PM PST, Pluto was 32.89406876 AU from the Earth, a number which is changing minute-by-minute as both planets follow their orbital paths around the Sun.

Answer 2

The distance between Earth and Pluto varies due to their elliptical orbits. On average, Pluto is about 3.67 billion miles (5.91 billion kilometers) away from Earth. At its farthest, Pluto can be over 4.67 billion miles (7.5 billion kilometers) away.

Answer 3

Since the planets all orbit in a circular motion, the distance between them is always changing. At its farthest point, Pluto is 4.67 billion miles away from Earth.

Answer 4

It is 3000000000000 miles away