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    How many miles is the sun from the earth?

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    With the average distance or "mean" distance from the Earth to the sun set at approximately 93,000,000 miles, and the speed of light at about 186,000 miles per second; the time in seconds it takes sunlight to reach the earth is appoximately "500 seconds". Most people refer to the time in minutes which would be about 8.333333 minutes.
    Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_seconds_does_it_take_sunlight_to_reach_earth#ixzz20xyIwU9T

    The distance between the sun and the earth is 92,955,807.273 miles.



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