Question

You have seen how large Jupiter would be if the Sun were a 1 meter sphere. Using the same scale, how large would the other planets be? Give your answers in meters, rounded to the nearest one thousandth.

Answer 1

If the diameter of the sun is 1,391,000,000 meters, then if it were a 1-meter sphere the diameter would be 7.2 × 10⁻¹⁰

As for the other planets, the original diameters of each planet should be multiplied by the new diameter of the sun, which leads to:

Mercury: 0.0035 meters
Venus: 0.0087 meters
Earth: 0.0092 meters
Mars: 0.0049 meters
Jupiter: 0.1028 meters
Saturn: 0.086 meters
Uranus: 0.0367 meters
Neptune: 0.0356 meters