0 Question: how do you find out how far away the sun is? Keywords: Royal Society of Chemistry: Find out more about: distance sun Asked by ashmcmath to Anaïs, Peter, Shreesha on 19 Mar 2015.
Peter Maskell answered on 19 Mar 2015:
look on google 😉
they used some fancy maths (I don’t understand) as shown here:-
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/5192/how-is-distance-between-sun-and-earth-calculated
Anaïs Pujol answered on 20 Mar 2015:
It is really complicated mathematics equation using Kepler equations. First ones to try it were Picard, Cassini and Richer in 1672
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