how far away is the sun – Subatomic Zone

Question: how far away is the sun
- Keywords:
  space,
  sun
Asked by rache to Ben, Jony, Katharine, Mark, Peter on 15 Nov 2011.
- Ben Still answered on 15 Nov 2011:
  
  About 150,000,000km give or take a few kilometres. It changes depending on the time of year though, because the orbit of the Earth around the Sun is not a perfect circle but instead an ellipse – a squashed circle, kind of Egg shaped.
  
  So sometimes we are closer than this sometimes further away. The 150,000,000km is just an average distance, at closest we are about 147,000,000km from the Sun and at furthest about 152,000,000km.
- Peter Williams answered on 15 Nov 2011:
  
  it’s one Astronomical Unit away 😉
  or approximately 8 light minutes – the light of the sun takes 8 minutes to get here.
- Katharine Schofield answered on 15 Nov 2011:
  
  or about 93 million miles…
- Mark Basham answered on 15 Nov 2011:
  
  or about 40 000 000 000 double decker buses 🙂

Question: how far away is the sun