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The distance of Pluto from Earth varies significantly due to their elliptical orbits, ranging from about 4.28 billion kilometers (2.66 billion miles) at its closest approach to over 7.52 billion kilometers (4.67 billion miles) when they are on opposite sides of the Sun. As for its distance from the Sun, Pluto orbits at an average distance of about 5.9 billion kilometers (3.67 billion miles). These distances can change as both Earth and Pluto travel along their respective orbits.

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What is the distance betwen earth and Pluto?

At its closest, Pluto is around 4,436,824,613 km from the sun. Taking off the earth to sun distance of 150 million km, the closest that Pluto will get to earth is around 4,286,800,000km. At its furthest Pluto would be around 6,050,000,000km from earth


What Pluto average distance from the sun?

Pluto's jouney around the sun takes about 248.4 earth yaers


How many miles is Pluto from the Earth?

When I was a kid Pluto was closer to the sun than Neptune. Now it is further away. The distance between Pluto and earth will vary as Pluto orbits the sun--Pluto's orbit is fairly eccentric. At aphelion (furthest distance from the sun) Pluto is 48.871 AU (average earth/sun distance) from the sun. That is 4.542 billion miles. When the earth is on the opposite side of the sun, that would maximize the distance to Pluto at close to 4.635 billion miles (4.542 billion plus 93 million). Pluto will reach its next maximum distance from us in 2113, just over a century from now (2012). At its closest Pluto is 29.657 AU from the sun, or 2.757 billion miles. Some time during 1989 earth and Pluto were lined up on the same side of the sun, and the distance between them was minimized to roughly 2.664 billion miles.


What is the actual distance in miles of the planet Pluto?

Pluto's distance from Earth varies from 2.6 to 4.6 billion miles depending on the position of Earth and Pluto in their orbits around the Sun. The distance from the Sun is 2.8 to 4.5 billion miles.


The nearest distance from Pluto to Earth is?

The nearest distance between Pluto and Earth is about 2.66 billion miles (4.28 billion kilometers) when they are on the same side of the Sun. However, this distance varies as both planets orbit the Sun in elliptical paths.


How far from Pluto to earth?

The distance from Earth to Pluto depends on the point in their rotation around the Sun. However, it is generally considered that Pluto is 7.5 billion kilometers from the Earth.


How close is Pluto?

That's a difficult question to answer precisely. 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, or about 93 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 Sun from Pluto when Pluto is furthest from the Sun). However, keep in mind that an AU is an average and that Earth's actual orbit varies anywhere from 91 to 94.5 million miles. Hope that helps.


what Pluto, the dwarf planet, is 5.9 billion kilometers from the Sun. Explain how a model showing the gravitational pull on Pluto would differ from your model of Earth’s orbit.?

The distance between the Sun and Earth is 149,600,000 kilometers, and the distance between the Sun and Pluto is 5.9 billion kilometers. The gravitational pull decreases with an increase in distance. So, the gravitational pull of the Sun on Pluto is much less than its pull on Earth. So, in the model, Pluto’s orbit would have a much larger radius than Earth’s orbit.


Whats plutos distance from the sun?

Pluto's jouney around the sun takes about 248.4 earth yaers


How many AU's is the dwarf planet Pluto from the sun?

Pluto has an orbit that varies greatly in its distance from the sun. At a minimum, Pluto is 29.6 AUs from the Sun (about 2.8 billion miles). At a maximum, Pluto is 49.3 AUs from the Sun (about 4.5 billion miles). 1 AU is equal to 93 million miles, the distance from Earth to the Sun.


Earth is 1.5 x 1 km from the sun and Pluto averages 5.9 x 10 km from the sun during its rather strange orbit?

Pluto orbits the sun at an average distance of about 5.9 billion kilometers, while Earth is around 150 million kilometers away from the sun. This makes Pluto's average distance from the sun significantly farther than Earth's.


How far is Pluto from the moon?

Pluto is about 5,913 million km from the sun (on average). Earth is about 150 million km from the sun. Pluto is about 5,763 million km from Earth, so Pluto is about the same distance from our moon.