I once read a book about our Solar System. It gave the diameters of the above (which I no longer have, unfortunately). To understand those figures a bit better, I scaled them down and came up with the following:
The Sun: 9'0" in diameter, the height of my kitchen ceiling (but imagine it as a 9'0" sphere).
The Earth: The size of a table tennis ball
The Moon: The size of a 1/4" ball bearing.
What do you think of my calculations. Are they accurate?
2006-09-22
21:20:41
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Strawberry_Lynn
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