Please answer the following:
A) List these objects or regions of space in order of increasing size A. diameter of the Sun; B. diameter of the Big Dipper; C. diameter of Jupiter’s orbit; D. distance from us to the nearest star; E. diameter of the Milky Way galaxy; F. diameter of the Earth; G. diameter of the Kuiper Belt (i.e., like the asteroid belt, but for icy objects); H. diameter of Jupiter
B) Suppose an object takes 1000 years to orbit the Sun. How many times farther from the Sun is it, when compared with Earth?
C) Communications with the spacecraft Alpha using radio waves require 2000 years for the round trip (there and back). This implies that Alpha is how many light years away from Earth?
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