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What is an astronomical unit (AU)?

What is an astronomical unit (AU)?
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What is an astronomical unit (AU)?

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The AU ... Astronomical Unit ... used to be defined as the average distance between the Sun and Earth during the year.

Now it's defined as 149,597,870,700 meters exactly.

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