How far away from earth are the following planets?

Question

Please give your resuls in minutes and seconds travelled at the speed of light.

1) Venus
2) Mars
3) the asteroid belt
4) Saturn
5) Jupiter
6) Uranus
7) Neptune
8) Orcus
9) Quaoar
10) Sedna
11) Eris

Answer 1

See http://www.nineplanets.org/
the answers are there.

Answer 2

They orbit, so it varies a lot, particularly with the first two. At their closest approach, roughly:

Venus - 2 minutes.
Mars - 3 1/2 minutes.
Asteroid belt - Varies too much to give a meaningful answer.
Saturn - about an hour.
Jupiter - about half an hour.
Uranus - 2 1/2 hours.
Neptune - 3 1/2 hours.
Orcus - orbit too eccentric to give a meaningful answer, but includes 5 hours.
Quaoar - 5 hours 40 minutes.
Sedna - extremely eccentric orbit, so again no answer.
Eris - again, orbit too eccentric.

There's no point in being more accurate as distances vary so much due to the Earth's orbit and the eccentricity of the planets' orbits. Once you get down to a second, even with Venus you're talking about a variation of less than 1% of its eccentricity.

Answer 3

You need to do some research. The distance between the earth and the other planets varies depending on where the planets are in their orbits. The distance between earth and the stars is much much greater than to the planets so where the earth is in it's orbit does not make any practical difference in the answer.

Good luck