Question

7. The mean distance of the Earth from the Sun is 1.5 x 10^8 km. If light travels at a speed of 3 x 10^3km/s, find the approximate time taken by sunlight to reach the Earth.

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Answer 1

Answer:

Earth orbits the sun 100,000 times closer than the Oort Cloud, at an average of 92,955,807 miles (149,597,870 km).

Answer 2

Answer:

The short answer is that it takes sunlight an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to the Earth.