UNIVERSE
SURVEY OF THE PLANETS
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Detailed explanation-1: -IAU declared Pluto a dwarf planet in 2006, so now Neptune is the farthest planet. Its distance from Sun in the Solar System is 4495 million km.
Detailed explanation-2: -The order of the dwarf planets from closest to the Sun outwards is Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. Being the farthest, Eris is about 96.4 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun-almost 14 billion km (9 billion miles) away.
Detailed explanation-3: -The inner edge of the Kuiper Belt begins at the orbit of Neptune, at about 30 AU from the Sun. (1 AU, or astronomical unit, is the distance from Earth to the Sun.) The inner, main region of the Kuiper Belt ends around 50 AU from the Sun.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mercury – 36 million miles (58 million kilometres) Venus – 67 million miles (108 million kilometers) Earth – 92.96 million miles (149.60 million km) Mars – 142 million miles (228 million kilometers) Jupiter – 484 million miles (778 million kilometers) More items •23-Jan-2023