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Scaling Earth to a Marble
One of my toys is a blue marble with green continents painted on it. It not perfectly round, but a few random measurements with a 10-micrometer-repeatable dial caliper average to 21.85 millimeters diameter. What if we scaled the solar system, planets and distances, so that the Earth was the size of that marble?
Here's a text snapshot of a crude that I created:
Earth-Marble Scaled Solar System |
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Marble Scaled |
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Radius |
Distance |
sun fraction |
Diameter |
Distance |
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km |
km |
AU |
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Scaled m |
Scaled m |
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Sun |
695700 |
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2.386 |
0 |
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Mercury |
2440 |
5.790E+07 |
0.39 |
4.440E-10 |
10.7% |
0.008 |
397 |
Venus |
6052 |
1.062E+08 |
0.71 |
8.119E-10 |
19.5% |
0.021 |
728 |
Earth |
6371 |
1.496E+08 |
1.00 |
4.534E-10 |
10.9% |
0.02185 |
1026 |
Mars |
3386 |
2.279E+08 |
1.52 |
5.519E-11 |
1.3% |
0.012 |
1563 |
Jupiter |
69173 |
7.786E+08 |
5.20 |
1.973E-09 |
47.4% |
0.237 |
5341 |
Saturn |
57316 |
1.434E+09 |
9.58 |
3.997E-10 |
9.6% |
0.197 |
9833 |
Uranus |
25266 |
2.873E+09 |
19.20 |
1.934E-11 |
0.5% |
0.087 |
19703 |
Neptune |
24552 |
4.495E+09 |
30.05 |
7.458E-12 |
0.2% |
0.084 |
30833 |
total |
4.164E-09 |
100.0% |
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