If mercury is an average of 3.2 light minutes fro, the sun how many kilometers is Mercury from the sun ?

mercury ( the planet closest to the sun) has no atmosphere like earth and is subject to intense radiation from the sun
that heat boils off everything
the other side of mercury ( opposite to the sun) is freezing cold
plenty of information on google to answer all of your questions with scientific evidence for your project

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)

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.

Assuming you mean the distance from earth to the sun and earth to mercury, the are as follows, according to Wikipedia: The mean distance from earth to the sun is 149,597,890 km.

The mean distance from mercury to the sun is 57,909,715 km. Extrapolating, by subtracting the two distances, one gets 91, 688, 715 km as the mean distance from earth to mercury assuming that the planets were in alignment on the same side of the sun.

However, with mercury on the opposite side of the sun from earth then the distance from earth to mercury would increase by 57,909,175 km over the earth's distance to the sun to 207,007,965 km.

I hope this helps you with your problem with the 1987 Alpine V6 though I can't imagine how.

ercury does not exist

Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun - it orbits at an average distance of 57,910,000 km, or 0.38 AU from Sun. (An AU is an Astronomical Unit; it is equal to the distance between the Sun and the Earth.) Mercury's diameter is 4,880 km and it has a mass of 3.3023 kg. Mercury has been known since at least the time of the Sumerians (3rd millennium BC). Although the Greeks had two names for it, Apollo for its apparition as a morning star and Hermes as an evening star, they knew that the two names referred to the same object. We know this planet as Mercury - the name of the Roman counterpart to Hermes.

Mercury, shown at left in a Mariner 10 image, is the closest planet to the Sun - it orbits at an average distance of 57,910,000 km, or 0.38 AU from Sun. (An AU is an Astronomical Unit; it is equal to the distance between the Sun and the Earth.) Mercury's diameter is 4,880 km and it has a mass of 3.3023 kg. Mercury has been known since at least the time of the Sumerians (3rd millennium BC). Although the Greeks had two names for it, Apollo for its apparition as a morning star and Hermes as an evening star, they knew that the two names referred to the same object. We know this planet as Mercury - the name of the Roman counterpart to Hermes.

There are 1000 meters in a kilometer and 3600 seconds in an hour (60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour).

Press 8 0 0 / 5 0 * 3 6 0 0 / 1 0 0 0 =
or 8 0 0 / 1 0 0 0 * 3 6 0 0 / 5 0 =

The result should be 57.6 kph.

Basic facts

• Central temperature: 15,000,000 K
  
• Surface temperature: 6,000 K
  
• Distance from Earth: 150,000,000 kilometers (1 Astronomical Unit)
  
• Size: 1,400,000 kilometer diameter
  
• Mass: 2 x 10 30 kilograms (300,000 x the Earth's mass)
  
• Average density: 1400 kg/m3(1.4 x water)
  
• Solar energy reaching Earth: 1400 Watts/m2 (solar constant)
  
• Total Luminosity of the Sun
• equivalent to the energy flow through a sphere surrounding the Sun
• The surface area of this sphere is 2.8 x 10 23 m2
• So, the total luminosity is:
• 1400 Watts/m2 x 2.8 x 10 23 m2
• = 4 x 10 26 Watts
• Go to this page to get more information about The sun