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Sun's mean distance to Earth?
93 million miles or 150 km = 1 AU
Sun's light travel time to Earth?
8.32 minutes
Maximum Distance from Sun to Earth
152,000,000 km
Minimum Distsance from Sun to Earth
147,000,000 km
Mean angular diameter
32 arcminutes
Radius of the Sun in km
696,000 km
Radius of the Sun in Earth radii
109 Earth radii
Mass of the Sun in kg
1.981x10**30 kg
Mass of the Sun in Earth's Mass
3.33 x 10**5 of Earth Masses, or 333,000 Earth's Mass
How old is the Sun?
greater than 4.2 billion years; oldest meteorites are at least 4.5 ~ 4.6 Gyr
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