Question by jan: How do astronomers measure distances in the solar system? How do astronomers measure distances in the solar system? Best answer: Answer by Elizabeth HDistance Information Distances in the solar system are commonly measured in Astronomical Units (AU). An AU is simply the average distance between the Earth and the Sun. Because...
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How do astronomers measure distances in the solar system?
NASA launching twin moon probes to measure gravity (AP)
AP – Four decades after landing men on the moon, NASA is returning to Earth’s orbiting companion, this time with a set of robotic twins that will measure lunar gravity while chasing one another in circles. Yahoo! News: Space/Astronomy
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How You Can Measure the Size of Planets
Ever wondered how scientists came up with planet sizes? It’s not like somebody took a really long measuring tape and wrapped this around one planet to take its specs, right? Well, it has to do with mathematics and the gift of observation. Distance did it Back in the day, it was Copernicus who found...
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If the sun were viewed from the planet Saturn, the measure of the angle formed by the distance and tangent lin
If the sun were viewed from the planet Saturn, the measure of the angle formed by the distance and tangent lines would be about 0.0278. use the fact that sin 0.0278 = 0.000485 and radius of the sun is approximately 433,000 mi to find the distance from Saturn to the sun to the nearest...
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