Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

One Astronomical Unit or Au is termed as the distance between...

  1. The Earth and Mars

  2. The Earth and teh Moon

  3. The Earth and the Sun

  4. Pluto and The Sun
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Explanation

One Astronomical Unit (AU) is defined as the average distance between the Earth and the Sun, approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. This unit provides a convenient scale for measuring distances within our solar system. For example, Mars is about 1.5 AU from the Sun, Jupiter is about 5.2 AU, and Pluto averages about 39.5 AU from the Sun.

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