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286,479 kilometers
- To find the distance to the planet, we just use the parallax formula Tan (angle/2) = h /2xDistance to get Distance = 500 km/Tan (0.1) and so Distance = 286,479 kilometers.
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Jun 5, 2012 · Without parallax, it isn’t hard to figure out how far Venus is relative to the Sun — that is, to determine the ratio of the radius of Venus’s orbit L V to the radius of Earth’s orbit L E. That’s why it was widely understood quite early in Renaissance astronomy what the relative distances were from the planets to the Earth and to the Sun.
= The long edge of the green triangle is the distance between the Earth and Venus. = The short edge of the red triangle is the distance between A’ and B’, the difference in the apparent position of Venus in the Sun pictures taken from A and B.
Once we have the distance between Earth and Venus , it's easy to find the distance from the Earth to the Sun, again using Kepler's third law. This law tells us that the distance between the Earth and Venus is .28 times the distance between the Earth and the Sun.
The maximum distance between Venus and Earth is about 162 million miles (261 million kilometers). Mercury, the innermost planet, actually spends more time in Earth’s proximity than Venus. One more trick of perspective: how Venus looks through binoculars or a telescope.
