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Ceres is less than 5 AU from the sun, an AU being an Astronomical Unit. The equivalent of one AU is 93.000.000 miles, or 149.668.992 kilometers, so about 465.000.000 miles, or 748.344.960 kilometers!

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The travel time from earth to Ceres if you traveled at the speed of light?

The distance to Ceres varies depending on the relative positions of Earth and Ceres in our orbits. As of April 25, 2010, at 3:07 PM PDT, Ceres is at a distance of 2.158218 AU, where each AU is about 500 light-seconds. (One AU is the average distance between the Sun and the Earth.) So Ceres is currently 1079 light-seconds away. The orbit of Ceres around the Sun is an ellipse with aphelion of 2.98 AU and perihelion of 2.55 AU. When the Earth is on one side of the Sun and Ceres is on the other, our distance apart is about 3.98 AU, and when Ceres and the Earth are closest together, we are only about 1.55 AU distant. You can download the free open-source planetarium program Stellarium to see a representation of the sky and calculate the distance to any astronomical object in its database. And if you can see it, it's in there!


What is Ceres distance from the sun from au?

Ceres' average distance from the sun is about 2.77 astronomical units (AU).


Is the average distance from earth to the sun a light-year?

No. The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 8 light-minutes.It takes light 8 minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth, in other words.The distance that light can travel in one year is one light-year.


Is the sun 8 light min from earth?

8.3 light minutes equates to about 92,768,633.7 miles.


8.31 light minutes equals how many years?

This cannot be properly answered because light-minutes is a measure of distance not time.On that note, 8.31 light-minutes is a distance of 92,880,403.2 miles. This happens to be the approximate average distance from the earth to the sun.

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The travel time from earth to Ceres if you traveled at the speed of light?

The distance to Ceres varies depending on the relative positions of Earth and Ceres in our orbits. As of April 25, 2010, at 3:07 PM PDT, Ceres is at a distance of 2.158218 AU, where each AU is about 500 light-seconds. (One AU is the average distance between the Sun and the Earth.) So Ceres is currently 1079 light-seconds away. The orbit of Ceres around the Sun is an ellipse with aphelion of 2.98 AU and perihelion of 2.55 AU. When the Earth is on one side of the Sun and Ceres is on the other, our distance apart is about 3.98 AU, and when Ceres and the Earth are closest together, we are only about 1.55 AU distant. You can download the free open-source planetarium program Stellarium to see a representation of the sky and calculate the distance to any astronomical object in its database. And if you can see it, it's in there!


What is Ceres distance from the sun from au?

Ceres' average distance from the sun is about 2.77 astronomical units (AU).


What is the distance between sun and earth in light years?

The Earth is 8.3 light-MINUTES(0.0000152207001522070015220700152207 light years) from the Sun.


What is theLight distance to the sun?

The Earth is eight light-minutes away from the Sun.


What is Ceres's average distance from the sun?

414,010,000 km


Is the distance from the sun to the earth 1 light year?

No. A light year is the distance light travels in a year. By comparison, the sun is about 8 light minutes from Earth. This distance from Earth to the sun is called 1 astronomical unit or 1 AU.


Is the average distance from earth to the sun a light-year?

No. The distance from the Earth to the Sun is 8 light-minutes.It takes light 8 minutes to travel from the Sun to the Earth, in other words.The distance that light can travel in one year is one light-year.


Is the sun 8 light min from earth?

8.3 light minutes equates to about 92,768,633.7 miles.


What is the distance from the sun for Earth?

The distance varies, but the average is about 93,000,000 miles, or 8 light-minutes.


What is the distance in light years of the sun to earth?

Less than 1 light year. Lots less. It's not a light year away, it's 8.333 light minutes away . Light travels about 5.9 trillion miles in a year, and the sun is only 93 million miles away. The speed of light is 186,000 miles/second, so light from the sun reaches the earth in 500 seconds, or 8 minutes and 20 seconds. So, the sun is about 0.0000158 light years from the earth.


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?

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.


8.31 light minutes equals how many years?

This cannot be properly answered because light-minutes is a measure of distance not time.On that note, 8.31 light-minutes is a distance of 92,880,403.2 miles. This happens to be the approximate average distance from the earth to the sun.