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What is the distance from Earth to the sun?

The sun is, on average, 92,955,630 miles (149,597,870 kilometers) from Earth. That distance has been designated an astronomical unit (AU) and is used as a standard for measuring distances to other bodies in the solar systern. If a bridge to the sun existed, it would take 177 years, driving at a constant 60 miles per hour (97 kilometers per hour), to get there.

Sources: The Facts On File Dictionary of Astronomy, 1994, pp. 34, 325; Rovin, Jeff. Laws of Order, 213; The Universal Almanac 1992, p. 531.

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