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.
When at its the nearest, it is approximately 206,669,000 km / 128.4 million miles or 1.381497 AU* from the Sun. This makes the mean distance of Mars from the Sun in the course of one complete revolution 227,939,100 km / 141.6 million miles or 1.523679 AU. * 1 AU (Astronomical Unit) is equivalent to the Earth's mean distance from the Sun. 227,936,640 km.