• Question: how far is pluto from the sun [in miles]

    Asked by toxicturtill14 to Nick, Deepak on 20 Mar 2014.
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      Nick Wright answered on 20 Mar 2014:


      Great questions! Pluto has a very elliptical orbit, meaning that it isn’t always the same distance from the Sun – in fact sometimes it is closer to the Sun than Neptune is! But a good average value for the distance from the Sun to Pluto is about 3.5 billion miles! That’s a really long way!

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