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  • Sunlight Travel Time to Pluto: A Detailed Calculation
    It takes approximately 5 hours and 20 minutes for sunlight to reach Pluto.

    Here's how to calculate that:

    * Distance: Pluto is about 3.67 billion miles from the Sun on average.

    * Speed of light: Light travels at approximately 186,282 miles per second.

    * Time = Distance / Speed:

    * (3.67 billion miles) / (186,282 miles/second) = 19,680 seconds

    * Convert seconds to minutes: 19,680 seconds / 60 seconds/minute = 328 minutes (which is approximately 5 hours and 20 minutes)

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