There is a quasi-mythical attribution of the term to Edmund Burke, which Jeffrey Archer summed up in his novel, The Fourth Estate : In May 1789, Louis XVI summoned to Versailles a full meeting of the Estate General. The First Estate consisted of three hundred clergy. The Second Estate, three hundred nobles. The Third Estate, six hundred commoners. Some years later, after the French Revolution, Edmund Burke, looking up at the Press Gallery of the House of Commons, said, 'Yonder sits the Fourth Estate, and they are more important than them all.'.
When Venus is on the far side of the Sun from Earth, it can be as far as 261 million kilometers away. That varies widely, depending on which part of the orbit the Earth and Venus is. At its closest - during an inferior conjunction - Venus is at a distance of about 41 million kilometers.
Approximately 161,761,143 miles (about 260,329,324 kilometres) Comments: Obviously, the distance is very similar to that between Venus and Earth. That distance varies as the pâ¦lanets move in their orbits. So, it's changing all the time. The minimum distance is about 25 million miles.