2007-01-25 13:03:33 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
500 light seconds or 8 light minutes.
and just to put things in more of a perspective
A light second is a unit of length. It is defined as the distance light travels in an absolute vacuum in one second or 299,792,458 metres. Note that this value is considered exact, since the metre is actually (as of 1983) defined in terms of the light second. It is just over 186,282 miles and almost 109 feet.
A light minute is 60 light seconds and a light hour is 60 light minutes or 3600 light seconds. A light year is 31,557,600 light seconds.
Some distances in light seconds:
The mean diameter of the Earth is 0.0425 light seconds.
The mean distance, over land, between opposite sides of the planet Earth is 0.0668 light seconds (which also means that communications between opposite sides of the planet, taking a circumferential path, can never travel faster than about 67 milliseconds).
The average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 1.282 light seconds.
The diameter of the Sun is about 4.643 light seconds.
The average distance from the Earth to the Sun (or 1 astronomical unit) is 499.0 light seconds or 8.317 light minutes.
2007-01-25 13:12:57 · answer #1 · answered by jazzy P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
93 million miles
it takes the light 8 minutes to reach the Earth, so the sun you see is as the sun was 8 minutes in the past
2007-01-25 21:12:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
93 million miles is the AVERAGE distance earth is from the sun. It gets as close as 91 million miles and as far as 95 million depending on what part of its orbit it is. Interestingly, in the northern hemisphere, in the winter is when earth is closest and in the summer it is farthest away.
I'll leave it to my learned colleagues to explain why.
2007-01-25 21:42:19 · answer #3 · answered by Lorenzo Steed 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
90 million miles to the sun
2007-01-25 21:11:10 · answer #4 · answered by sportygurlxchristina 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if you were in a ship headed to the sun you would die of old age about .1 % of the way there
2007-01-25 21:09:27 · answer #5 · answered by Doss 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
about 93 million miles
2007-01-25 21:21:54 · answer #6 · answered by pimpinthis01 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
90 million miles away from earth
2007-01-25 21:09:48 · answer #7 · answered by Pissed off Sasquatch 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the truth is noone count how far the sun,,,but its very far away.
2007-01-29 18:50:05 · answer #8 · answered by scorpio king 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think 150 million miles... and also 500 light seconds or 8 light minutes
2007-01-25 21:12:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
152,097,701 km (1.016 710 333 5 AU)
2007-01-26 04:40:22 · answer #10 · answered by Geo06 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋