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rmountel rmountel
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11 years ago
A light year is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year. An AU is the measure within the solar system equal to the mean distance from Earth to Sun.
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#1
11 years ago
That depends on wether or not you have hemroids or asteroids, and which hemisphere your in!
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#2
11 years ago
Ok.... so you just answered your question. You got it right too.
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#3
11 years ago
You uhhh answered your own question.  A light year is a lot bigger then an AU.  For comparison, light takes just 8 minutes to travel to earth from the sun (and thus travel one AU).
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#4
11 years ago
So you're asking what the difference is in miles?  That's rather complex for calculators or anything.  (186000 times 31536000) minus astronomical unit distance.
Scientific Notation:
(5.865696 * 10^12) - AU
About 5.86 trillion miles minus the distance of an AU.
I think around 5865603000000 miles, or 5.865603 trillion.  Not very big in proportion.
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#5
11 years ago
One light year = 6 trillion miles & one AU = 93 million miles so one light year = 64516.129 AU
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#6
11 years ago
You've got the definitions.  So an AU is about 8.5 light minutes.  Put another way, a light year is about 6 trillion miles, an AU only 93 million.  So a lightyear is almost 700,000 AU.
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#7
11 years ago
An AU is the distance between the Sun And the Earth...about 94 million miles. A ly is the distance light travels in a year...about 6 trillion miles
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#8
11 years ago
Another viewpoint is that 1 AU is 500 light seconds, i.e., the distance that light travels in 500 seconds.  This is contrasted with a light year, wherein light travels for 31.6 million seconds, or 63,000 times longer, or farther, however, you want to look at it.
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#9
11 years ago
You seem to have the answer....though an AU CAN CHANGE....depending on where the Earth is atm.   I believe, not sure, but at close range a AU is about 7 mins  and at furthist distance, about 7.5 mins....totally not sure on that and only thing I'm trying to point out here is an AU can change.
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#10
11 years ago
"A light year is the distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year. An AU is the measure within the solar system equal to the mean distance from Earth to Sun."

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