Sunday, August 23, 2009

My how big the Universe is...

The universe is a big place. So big our slightly advanced ape brains cannot really conceive. Below are the specs for a scale model of our solar system where our sun is 12ft in diameter.

Mercury would be about 0.50 inches in diameter and orbit at an average distance of 499ft from the sun.

Venus would be about 1.25 inches in diameter and orbit at average distance of 932ft from the sun.

Earth would be about 1.32 inches in diameter and orbit at average distance of 1289.5ft from the sun.

Mars would be about 0.70 inches in diameter and orbit at average distance of 1964ft from the sun.

Jupiter would be about 14.43 inches in diameter and orbit at average distance of 6708ft from the sun.

Saturn would be about 12.05 inches in diameter and orbit at average distance of 12302ft from the sun.

Uranus
would be about 4.86 inches in diameter and orbit at average distance of 24745.75ft from the sun.

Neptune would be about 4.70 inches in diameter and orbit at average distance of 38795ft from the sun.

Pluto would be about 0.24 inches in diameter and orbit at average distance of 50977ft from the sun.

A light year would be 15447.3miles

To Alpha Centauri 65960.1 miles

To Sirius 133465 miles

To Deneb 21657120 miles

To Galactic Center 428046359.1 miles

Size of some other stars

Hottest star 108ft dia
(Type 05)

Coolest star 23.04in dia
(Type M5)

Red giant 4500ft dia
(Betelgeuse)

White dwarf 1.44in dia
(Sirius B)

Neutron star 0.002069in dia

And your average human being would be 0.000000001351 inches tall

Yeah we are definitely causing all that climate change in the solar system.

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