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A Question of Scale
| 3 cm | ping pong ball |
| 10 cm | softball |
| 30 cm | basketball |
| 1 m | width of doorway |
| 6 m | the classroom |
| over 1 km | depth of the Grand Canyon |
| 8.78 km | height of Mt. Everest |
| 11 km | deepest depth of Pacific Ocean |
| 1000 km | length of California |
| 2,476 km | diameter of the moon |
| 4,100 km | San Francisco to New York |
| 12.756 km | diameter of the Earth |
| 142.800 km | diameter of Jupiter |
| 384,402 km | distance to the Moon |
| 1.4 million km | diameter of the Sun |
| 152 million km | distance to the Sun |
| almost 1.5 billion km | distance from Sun to Saturn |
| 38 million km (off scale) | nearest star (other than Sun) |
| a million billion km or 100,000 LY (way off scale) | Milky Way Galaxy |