Physics (5th Edition)
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Author: James S. Walker
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Chapter 25, Problem 53PCE
What is the ratio of the sunlight intensity reaching Pluto compared with the sunlight intensity reaching Earth? (On average, Pluto is 39 times as far from the Sun as is Earth.)
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