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 | | Pluto is roughly 38 AU from the Sun, while Jupiter lies at roughly 5.2 AU. |
 | | For very large distances within the solar system, such as regions beyond Pluto or the orbital circumferences of planets, the terameter (Tm, one billion kilometers) is sometimes used. |
 | | Despite the fact that many diagrams (like the at the top of this article), for practicality's sake, represent the solar system as having each orbit the same distance apart, in actuality the orbits are largely arranged geometrically, that is, each is roughly double the distance from the Sun as the one before it. |
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