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Suggest a way to measure the radius of the earth the distance between the sun and the earth and the radius of the sun

Suggest a way to measure the radius of the earth the distance between the sun and the earth and the radius of the sun

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Vikas Amritiya
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How do you measure the distance between the Earth and the sun?
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Distance between earth and sun, a =around 150 million km, defined as one Astronomical Unit (AU). Radius of the Sun, Rsun = around 700,000 km. Orbital speed of Earth, v = around 30 km/s.

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