Planet size comparison

[Daehawk]

Just a little visual look at how the planets compare. Pretty cool when you see them compared to others and then the same ones to the sun.

[rickfc]

Visual no es worky

[Daehawk]

fixed

[wonderpug]

The Museum of Science in Boston has a pretty neat exhibit for this called the Community Solar System with the sun and 9 planets created at the right size and distances for a 1:400M scale.  They have a 12 foot diameter sun in the museum itself, and also house bitty little Mercury and Venus, with the rest of the planets scattered about the surrounding city and suburbs.

[Purge]

It's funny how other people fill in the thread to make it worth reading. It's like you almost have something worth posting, but it's ... incomplete?

No offense meant, but Daehawk, in all seriousness, you should open a thread in Off-Topic called "Daehawks Emporium of neat shit I found on the net". Then it's relevant and can be added to on a whim rather than having a new thread for your almost neat finds. Also, then when I think to myself "Wait, didn't Daehawk post that in a thread somewhere?" that I don't need to go hunting through the entire collection of Tangent Thoughts of the GT community.

[Booner]

I didn't realize that Neptune and Uranus were so large in comparison to Earth. Bigger, yeah...but that much bigger? 

[leo8877]

Wow, that's very cool!

[wonderpug]

It's funny how other people fill in the thread to make it worth reading. It's like you almost have something worth posting, but it's ... incomplete?

No offense meant, but Daehawk, in all seriousness, you should open a thread in Off-Topic called "Daehawks Emporium of neat shit I found on the net". Then it's relevant and can be added to on a whim rather than having a new thread for your almost neat finds. Also, then when I think to myself "Wait, didn't Daehawk post that in a thread somewhere?" that I don't need to go hunting through the entire collection of Tangent Thoughts of the GT community.

What the heck is up with all the Daehawk hate?  I love "space is huge" size comparisons like the one he posted, and I probably would never have seen this one if he hadn't made the post.

[WYBaugh8]

It's funny how other people fill in the thread to make it worth reading. It's like you almost have something worth posting, but it's ... incomplete?

No offense meant, but Daehawk, in all seriousness, you should open a thread in Off-Topic called "Daehawks Emporium of neat shit I found on the net". Then it's relevant and can be added to on a whim rather than having a new thread for your almost neat finds. Also, then when I think to myself "Wait, didn't Daehawk post that in a thread somewhere?" that I don't need to go hunting through the entire collection of Tangent Thoughts of the GT community.

Sorry Purge but this is awesome!  I'm a huge astronomy fan and I never realized that though huge, Uranus and Neptune are no where near the size of Jupiter/Saturn.  Learn something new every day!

Thanks Daehawk!

[dbt1949]

That reminds me of different size animal testicles.

[Mithridates]

I think the pictures are pretty cool, but they are sort of misleading probably due to the viewing angle.  Mars has a diameter of 6800km compared to Earth's 12800, so Mars should be a little more than half as tall(and wide) as the Earth.  Now it does look right width wise, but height wise it makes Mars seem tinier than it is.

Anyway, its still a real neat way to put the S.S. in perspective.

[Daehawk]

You're welcome WYB. I also love this stuff. Been a hobby of mine since childhood. Im glad people enjoy it as much as me.

[coopasonic]

I think the pictures are pretty cool, but they are sort of misleading probably due to the viewing angle.  Mars has a diameter of 6800km compared to Earth's 12800, so Mars should be a little more than half as tall(and wide) as the Earth. 

Blame your own eyes, in the picture mars height is about 55% of the earth's height, which is about right. Yeah, I counted pixels.

I think these are pretty awesome pics. When you look at the last one and realize earth is one of those grain of sand size dots compared to the sun it's pretty mind boggling.

[wonderpug]

Here's another image that helps answer that frequently asked question, "but how big is it compared to Texas?"

[wonderpug]

Oh and I found another image that follows the progression of the original picture:

[jersoc]

I didn't realize that Neptune and Uranus were so large in comparison to Earth. Bigger, yeah...but that much bigger? 

dude that's nothing. I can't find it right now. But there's this gif that shows comparrision of lots of planets and stars in the universe. some stars almost dwarf our solar system. That's nuts man. It was pretty damn awesome and I had to watch it like 5 times to make sure what I was seeing was actually what I thought.

yeah, i found it!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDNEV9EW06g

be amazed at how awesome space really is.

[wonderpug]

Cepheus hax.

[Sarkus]

I didn't realize that Neptune and Uranus were so large in comparison to Earth. Bigger, yeah...but that much bigger? 

The size of Uranus is pretty well known by the rest of us.  We didn't mean for you to find out this way.

(sorry)

 

[Daehawk]

Theres a few more pics that go to a blue supergiant then a red supergiant..freakin amazing. Here s a video with them...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ptdbNUtpx4&feature=related


http://newsizeofourworld.ytmnd.com/

[Moliere]

I thought Pluto was demoted?

[IkeVandergraaf]

There are rings around Uranus.

[rickfc]

There are rings around Uranus.

I thought cock-rings didn't count???  ZING!

[CSL]

There are rings around Uranus.

Don't kow tow to big science.

Pluto will always be a planet. "Back in my day, Pluto was a planet!"

[Canuck]

I'm actually more interested in the kanji.  It's cool that the Japanese/Chinese also use the planet names for the days of the week.  Just who invented the week anyways?

[Daehawk]

Microsoft.

[Mithridates]

I think the pictures are pretty cool, but they are sort of misleading probably due to the viewing angle.  Mars has a diameter of 6800km compared to Earth's 12800, so Mars should be a little more than half as tall(and wide) as the Earth. 

Blame your own eyes, in the picture mars height is about 55% of the earth's height, which is about right. Yeah, I counted pixels.

I wasn't saying that it was wrong, it just doesn't "look" 55% as tall.  At least not to me. 

[chaosraven]

Ok, the series going up (big old earth) (uh, little sez Jupiter) (teeny tiny sez the Sun) filled me with awe.

Those further ones? Filled my pants.

[Kyosho]

Cepheus hax.

Yeah holy shit!

[msduncan]

                             Table 3

                Solar System Scaled to 3-inch Earth

Parameter           Real Distance/Size     Scaled Distance/Size
-----------------   -------------------    ---------------------

Earth (diameter)         12,756 km              3 inches
Moon (diameter)           3,476 km            0.8 inches (ping pong ball)
Moon (distance)         384,400 km            7.5 feet
Sun (diameter)          1,392,000 km         27.3 feet
Sun (distance)    150 million km = 1 AU      0.55 miles (=0.9 km)
Jupiter (distance)         5.20 AU            2.9 miles (from sun)
Jupiter (diameter)      142,984 km            2.8 feet
Saturn (distance)          9.54 AU            5.2 miles (from sun)
Saturn (diameter)       120,536 km            2.4 feet
Pluto (distance)          39.54 AU           21.7 miles (from sun)
Pluto (diameter)          2,300 km            0.5 inch (small rubber ball
                                                or crumple up some tin foil)

Next nearest star   4.3 light years          156,000 miles (or more than 6/10ths
                                                  of the way to the moon on the
                                                  "real" scale of things!)

[Ironrod]

It's been said that our solar system consists of the Sun, Jupiter, and some assorted debris. And now it's just been said again.

[Moliere]

It's been said that our solar system consists of the Sun, Jupiter, and some assorted debris. And now it's just been said again.

Lucky for us that Jupiter is so damn big. It sucks in a lot of that passing debris so Terra isn't getting hit with nearly as many meteors.

[Purge]

There are rings around Uranus.

That's from the toilet seat. I was on too long; damned Sudoku.

[Redfive]

Here's another image that helps answer that frequently asked question, "but how big is it compared to Texas?"

Outstanding.

[Creepy_Smell]

Texas, it's like a whole other plutoid.

[GGMark]

that video as just crazy.  and amazing.  I knew that the relations to stuff here was pretty much not what most people suspect.

Consider that it takes light almost 5 minutes to go from the sun to earth, travelling and 32million miles per SECOND.

[wonderpug]

that video as just crazy.  and amazing.  I knew that the relations to stuff here was pretty much not what most people suspect.

Consider that it takes light almost 5 minutes to go from the sun to earth, travelling and 32million miles per SECOND.

Err, 190k miles per second.

[GGMark]

Sorry, I was off a bit.

from wikipedia.

The approximate value of 3×108 m/s is commonly used in rough estimates (the error is 0.07%). In imperial units, the speed of light is about 670,616,629.4 miles per hour or 983,571,056.4 feet per second (roughly one foot per nanosecond), which is about 186,282.397 miles per second.

11,176,943.823 is what i come up with, if I take the mMPH and divide it by 60.  Does light slow down, if its not traveling a mile?  or did I suddenly fail calculator 101?

[wonderpug]

Sorry, I was off a bit.

from wikipedia.

The approximate value of 3×108 m/s is commonly used in rough estimates (the error is 0.07%). In imperial units, the speed of light is about 670,616,629.4 miles per hour or 983,571,056.4 feet per second (roughly one foot per nanosecond), which is about 186,282.397 miles per second.

11,176,943.823 is what i come up with, if I take the mMPH and divide it by 60.  Does light slow down, if its not traveling a mile?  or did I suddenly fail calculator 101?

11 million miles per minute.  There are 60 seconds in a minute, and 60 minutes in an hour, so to get from mph to miles per second you'd divide by 3600 and get 186k miles per second.  Or you could just look at the last number in the Wikipedia paragraph.

[GGMark]

so i did faill..  its ok..it happens..

<off to his corner>

[IkeVandergraaf]

You know what's faster than light?

Love.