If there is any planet that is a million miles away. I was also thinking about a site where one can see the current positions of the planets in the solar system and their relative positions. Still, I'd like to know if there is a point exactly million miles away from Earth and what it is.
2007-05-07 06:13:10 · 14 answers · asked by einenglander 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
No. The moon is roughly 238,000 miles away, so 1 million is about 4 times that.
HTH
Charles
2007-05-07 06:19:09 · answer #1 · answered by Charles 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well..lets see...first of all 1 million miles is a hop in space.
1) Occasionally an asteroid will pass within a million miles of the Earth, but this is a rare occurence and considered very close.
2)The moon is 1/4 million miles away, so go 4 times that and you will have it.
3)Venus, the second closest to us is at closest 25 million miles, while mars comes in at 45 million for third.
4)Very rarely a comet will pass within a few million miles.
5)The one confirmed thing 1 million miles from Earth, is the Solar wind with it's particles and maybe some cosmic dust.
:)
2007-05-07 09:43:11 · answer #2 · answered by North_Star 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is, of course, a place that is a million miles away from Earth. Actually, it's the surface of an sphere, a million miles in radius around the Earth. There nothing there, except a few stray bits of space dust going by.
The moon is about 238,856 miles away. So a million miles is a bit more than 4 times further away. The orbit of Venus is about 25 million miles from the orbit of Earth; the orbit of Mars is about 35 million miles from the orbit of Earth.
2007-05-07 06:21:29 · answer #3 · answered by morningfoxnorth 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
A point 1E6 miles away is there in a sphere around the Earth in 3 (at least) dimensions. That would be extremely local to Earth, much closer than Venus or Mars but outside the lunar orbit. There is space junk that visits that locus from time to time, but NOT a chance for a planet.
2007-05-07 08:12:56 · answer #4 · answered by rhino9joe 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One million kilometers away is SOHO, the SOlar and Heliospheric Observatory. It is a satellite positioned in L1, the Lagrangian point between the sun and the earth. Because the gravitational pull of the sun and the earth balances each other out at this point, SOHO remaines stationary in this point free to observe the sun. Not a million miles away perhaps but close...
2007-05-07 07:37:01 · answer #5 · answered by DrAnders_pHd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The distance of planet from the Earth can be found here(see link below) as to what is a million miles away there is nothing but dark matter that makes up 96%(Ithink) of the universe!
2007-05-07 08:32:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
currently, the closest planet to Earth is Venus... it's about 30 million miles away. The only thing within a million miles is the moon, about 238,000 miles away.
2007-05-07 06:22:19 · answer #7 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there ia a place about a million miles away -- it would be a sphere with a radius of one million miles from the center of the Earth. But almost any place on that sphere would be open, empty space (unless you happened to pick one of the few tiny places with a piece of space debris floating by at that moment).
The Moon is about ¼ million miles away. The next closest object would be Venus, which at its closest approach is about 25,718,000 miles away.
Mars would be next -- at closest approach, it is about 48,680,000 miles away.
2007-05-07 06:26:07 · answer #8 · answered by Dave_Stark 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, there isn't. A million miles is very, very close in astonomical terms. Besides the moon (250,000 miles away), our closest neighbours are Mars and Venus - both many, many millions of miles away.
2007-05-07 06:19:47 · answer #9 · answered by Hello Dave 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-17 10:31:42 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋