The average distance from the Sun to Earth is 1.50 × 10¹¹ meters.The speed of light is 2.99 × 10⁸ m/s.So the Astronomical Unit could also be expressed as:
A) about a thousand light seconds.
B) about 8.3 light minutes.
C) about 1.6 × 10-⁴ light years..
D) about 4.9 × 10-⁵ parsecs.
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