What is the distance between pluto and earth?

One Astronomical Unit (AU), or 149,600,000 km, is the average distance between Earth and the sun.

Although Pluto's orbit is highly elliptical, with a mean distance of 5,906,380,000 km, or 39.5 AU, it can get as close as 30 AU and as far away as 48.5 AU.

Therefore, when Pluto is at perihelion, or closest to the sun, and Earth is on the opposite side of the sun, the distance between the two objects is approximately 29 AU. Conversely, when Pluto is at aphelion, or furthest from the sun, the distance would be approximately 49.5 AU.

Using the free astronomy program Stellarium, we can determine that Pluto is currently 33.9 AU from Earth, or on the opposite side of the sun from us.

The average distance between Pluto and Earth is approximately 3.7 billion miles (5.9 billion kilometers). However, this distance can vary significantly due to the elliptical orbits of both Pluto and Earth around the Sun.