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Geography

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Gnoma [55]3 years ago

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Answer:

91.469 million mi

Explanation:

It takes 8.3 minutes for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth (a distance of 1.58 × 10-5 light-years). The most distant space probe, Voyager 1, was 13 light hours (only 1.5 × 10-3 light years) away from Earth in September 2004.

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