•4. If light takes about eight minutes to
travel from the Sun to the
Earth, and about forty minutes
to travel from the Sun to Jupiter, how many astronomical units (AU) is Jupiter from the Sun?
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•Easiest solution – look it up in table A-13
(5.2 AU)! Otherwise this is really the
same as the moonlight problem.
Jupiter is (40/8 = 5) times farther from the sun
than the Earth is. The Earth is 1 AU from the
sun, so Jupiter is about 5 AU from the sun.