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.
How far is Mercury away from the sun? Astronomers convert large distances such as these to astronomical units. An astronomical unit (AU) is 93 million miles, which is the average distance from the sun to Earth. In this regard, Mercury's average distance from the sun is 0.387 AU. To put this into perspective, Neptune's average distance from the sun is 30.1 AU. The closest Mercury comes to Earth during its orbit is 48 million miles.