Capable of hydrolyzing or otherwise breaking down a sugar molecule. Origin: saccharo-_ G. Lysis, loosening. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page. This page was last modified on 3 October 2005, at 21:16.This page has been accessed 14,911 times. What links here | Related changes | Permanent link.
There is a unit for measuring the distance from the earth to the sun known as an astronomical unit. This is 149,597,870,691Km (~93 million miles) plus or minus 30Km. You can use an astronomical unit to compare distances against the distance between the earth and sun e.g the distance between the sun and Mars is 1.52 AU.
We didn't know how big it was, and we didn't know how far away it was. We orbit the Sun at a distance of about 150 million kilometers. This number is actually an average, since we follow an elliptical path.At its closest point, the Earth gets to 147 million km, and at its most distant point, it's 152 million km.Distances in the Solar System are so vast that astronomers use this distance as a standard for measurement, and so the average distance from the Earth to the Sun is called an astronomical unit.e didn't know how big it was, and we didn't know how far away it was. We orbit the Sun at a distance of about 150 million kilometers. This number is actually an average, since we follow an elliptical path.