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What is an astronomical unit?

What is an astronomical unit? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (astronomy) The mean distance from the Earth to the Sun (the semi-major axis of Earth's orbit), approximately 149,600,000 kilometres (symbol AU), used to measure distances in the solar system.
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We propose to two observers located on two different sites to calculate themselves the astronomical unit using their own observations.
The information sheet n?05b provides some formulae easy to use in order to be able to calculate the astronomical unit from two observations made from two sites.
In naming these enormous distances what astronomical unit is used?
Today the distance between the Earth and sun, known as an astronomical unit, is accurately measured by radar.
That was one astronomical unit, equal to about ninety-three million miles, the distance from Earth to the sun.
We are, so to speak, an astronomical unit, and we affect each other for better or for worse.

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