What is the distance between Planet Earth and Venus ?
No, that is only the *shortest* distance between them-when they are exactly lined up on the same side of the sun. The maximum distance, which occurs with the exact same frequency as the closest, is when Earth and Venus are on opposite sides of the sun, which is 1.723 AU. The average distance would be somewhere between those two values, or about 1 AU, or 150 million km. Think about the fact that Earth and Venus both rotate around the sun at different speeds-sometimes they are on opposite sides, far apart, and sometimes on the same side, close together..the important consideration is that they have different orbital times, so they don’t stay close together any longer than they stay far apart.
