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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