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A planet has an average distance to the sun of 0.66 AU.
How do you calculate it?

User Gligoran
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We can calculate that by the Parallax method..........
User Johan Pelgrim
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AU means astronomical unit, meaning the distance from the earth to the sun
about ‎9.2956×10⁷ miles or 1.4960×10¹¹ meters

0.66 times those results in 6.135096×10⁷ miles or 9.8736×10¹⁰ meters

I used math
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