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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 |