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Astronomical Distances and
Sizes of Planets
(With Respect to Earth)
Sizes of the Planets
in the
Solar System
Astronomical Distances
in Our
Solar System
( I )
Distance Between
the Earth and the Moon
(II)
Distances Between the
Planets in the Solar System
{ 1 / 10 billion scale model }
Mercury (6m); Earth (15m); Jupiter (78m); Pluto (592m)
References
• General Ideas Taken From Chapter 1 in:
Bennett, Jeffrey. The Cosmic Perspective. 5th Ed.
San Francisco: Pearson Education, Inc.,
Addison Wesley, 2009.
• Planetary Pictures and Chart: - http://ar.to/2006/08/our-new-solar-system
- http://artlibrary.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/make-the-solar-system-in-tappan/
- http://www.saintjoe.edu/~dept14/environment/rogero/core5/celestial_compare.html
- http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/multimedia/mro20080303earth.html
- http://astrogeek.us/2009/08/21/scale-model-of-the-earth-and-moon/
- http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/student/2007/question.aspx?GradeID=8&SubjectCode =sci&QuestionTypeName=&QuestionID=5175