How many miles is it from the sun - Radio Communications

Hello Izzy...posting in the Fixya automotive with a question about the sun is kinda unusual...lol..but here goes...

A quick google search turned up these facts about out sun.

It is a lot bigger than your average passenger vehicle...

The mean radius of the sun is 432,450 miles (696,000 kilometers), which makes its diameter about 864,938 miles (1.392 million km). You could line up 109 Earths across the face of the sun. The sun's circumference is about 2,713,406 miles (4,366,813 km).

Here are some more interesting Sun facts:
http://www.suntrek.org/sun-as-a-star/sun-and-earth/comparing-size-sun-and-earth.shtml


Thanks for the points.

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun. Its orbit around the Sun is very elliptical, like a stretched out circle, compared to those of the other planets. Mercury's distance from the Sun ranges from 28.6 million miles (46 million km) to 43.4 million miles (69.8 million km)

1. When Neptune and Earth line up on the same side of the sun, at their closest, they are only 2.7 billion miles (4.3 billon kilometers) apart. But when the planets are on opposite sides of the sun, they can put as many as 2.9 billion miles (4.7 billion km) between them.Dec 14, 2012.

All you had to do was a very easy Goggle search.

Really? It is 875,000 miles across. Do you know how to do an internet search?

According to CoolCosmos,
The average distance of Neptune from the Sun is 2,795,084,800 miles or 4,498,252,900 kilometers. Because its orbit is elliptical, its distance from the Sun changes depending on where it is in its orbit. The closest Neptune gets to the Sun is 2,771,087,000 miles or 4,459,630,000 kilometers. The farthest it gets from the Sun is 2,819,080,000 miles or 4,536,870,000 kilometers.

Average, about 93 million miles. Going there soon?

By the original definition, one AU.

It can be as far away from the Sun as 2,800,000,000 miles and as close as 2,770,000,000. Thanks for an easy one. Roger

Taking 93000000 Miles as Distance between earth and sun, you want to know how much time it takes for the light to touch Earth's atmosphere

93000000 / 186000 = 500sec

500 secs is 8 min 30sec Approx

so it takes 8 mins and approx 30 secs for light to reach from sun to earth