• Question: how many millimetres is earth away from the sun?

    Asked by cw to Claire, Liad, Ruth, Ryan, Mako on 13 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Ryan Cheale

      Ryan Cheale answered on 13 Jun 2015:


      149 597 870 700 metres to the sun so 149 597 870 700 000 mm!

      The distance to the sun from the earth is called an AU or an astronomical unit! So if were to measure the distance from the moon to the earth it would be around 0.002AU much easier than saying 385,000,000 metres!

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