Poland Table of Contents. During the reign of Empress Catherine the Great (1762-96), Russia intensified its manipulation in Polish affairs. Prussia and Austria, the other powers surrounding the republic, also took advantage of internal religious and political bickering to divide up the country in three partition stages. The third partition in 1795 wiped Poland-Lithuania from the map of Europe.
1 Saturn is 886 million miles, or 1426 million kilometres, from the Sun. 2  Distances from the Sun are measured in Astronomical Units (AU). 3  The Earth is the standard unit, and is one AU from the Sun, so an AU equals 150 million kilometres (93 million miles), the distance of the Earth from the Sun.
Sometime in August, our planet reaches it's closest distance from the sun (Perihelion) with a distance of about 0.98 AU. Here, AU is short for Astronomical Unit which is defined as earth's average distance from the sun. Thus 1 AU = 92.956Ã10 6 miles = 149.6Ã10 6 km.