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.
The best way to appreciate the size of our solar system is by creating a scaled model of it that. shows how far from the sun the eight planets are located. Astronomers use the distance between Earth. and sun, which is 93 million miles, as a new unit of measure called the Astronomical Unit. It is defined to. be exactly 1.00 for the Earth-Sun orbit distance, and we call this distance 1.00 AUs.