One can compare the size of the Sun, Moon and Earth in more than one way, but comparing Mass and volume are probably the most informative.
Below this answer are the numbers for the mass and volume of each as well as the ratios to see how they compare, but it is probably worthwhile to put a few of these quantities into words first.
one trillion trillion kilograms)
Moon Mass: 0.0735 x 10^24 kg
Earth Mass: 5.974 x 10^24 kg
Sun Mass: 1,989,100 x 10^24 kg
Mass Comparison
Sun/Earth: The Sun has 333,000 times the mass of the Earth.
Earth/Moon: The Earth has 81
times the mass of the Moon.
Sun/Moon: The Sun has 27,073,171 times the mass of the Moon.
Volume Values: (10^12 km^3 =
trillion cubic kilometers)
Moon Volume: .022 x 10^12 km^3
Earth Volume: 1.08 x 10^12 km^3
Sun Volume: 1,412,000 x 10^12 km^3
Volume Comparison:
Sun/Earth: The Sun has 1,304,000 times the volume of the Earth.
Earth/Moon: The Earth has 49.3 times the volume of the Moon.
Sun/Moon: The Sun has 64,236,453 times the volume of the Moon.
If you pick up a grain of rice, how much heavier would you be?
That's about what the difference would be between the Sun alone, and the Sun, Moon, and Earth together. If the Earth were to drop into the Sun, it wouldn't be big enough to make a splash.
The diameter of the sun is roughly 400 times the diameter of the moon.
By sheer coincidence, the sun also happens to be about 400 times farther
away from us than the moon is, so they appear to be roughly the same size
in our sky.
"Size" might refer to the diameter, surface, volume, or even the mass. These are the approximate diameters:
Sun: 1.4 million km.
Earth: 12,700 km.
Moon: 3,500 km.
it is said that the moon borrowed it's light from the sun
The Earth has a radius of 6371 km.
The Moon has a radius of 1737 km.
The Sun has a radius of 696000 km.
it takes 109 earths to make the sun
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The sun has never passed between the moon and the Earth. If it did, we'd all be in big trouble, as the space between the moon and the Earth isn't even big enough for the sun to fit through. Fortunately, we don't have much to worry about, since the sun is almost 400 times as far away from us as the moon is.
it doesn't orbit the sun. it only orbits jupiter.
No. The sun is a star. The moon is a moon.
sun moon and earthBetween the Sun, Moon and the Earth, the Sun is the biggest.
At full Moon, that is, when the Moon is opposite to the Sun, from our point of view.At full Moon, that is, when the Moon is opposite to the Sun, from our point of view.At full Moon, that is, when the Moon is opposite to the Sun, from our point of view.At full Moon, that is, when the Moon is opposite to the Sun, from our point of view.
No. The sun is 400 times the size of the moon.
the sun is the biggest, but the sun is just a big,big,big star as i know because im a scientist:)
the sun is a very big thing and is far away the moon is small compared to the sun and is near to us when the big sun goes far away it seems to be as big as the moon near to us
No. The sun is the bright yellow thing in the sky. The moon is the big white thing in the sky.
The sun is big but far away. the moon is close(er) but smallish
The Sun is about 400 times as big (diameter) as the Moon. It just happens that the Sun is about 400 times as far away as the Moon so that when the Moon is between the Earth and the Sun there can be a total eclipse of the Sun. The orbit of the Moon is eleiptical , sometimes close and sometimes farther away from the earth and when the alignment happens at a time when the Moon is farther away, the eclipse is annular (like a ring).
The diameter of the sun is about 109 times the diameter of the earth,and about 400 times the diameter of the moon.
The Sun looks the same size from the Moon as it does from the Earth, varying from smaller to larger by less than 1%.
If you could compare the sun to the size of a penny, an electronic microscope would be needed to see the moon.
Saturn - It is larger than both the earth and the moon
The sun's diameter is about 400 times as big as our moon's diameter, 108 times as big as the Earth's, and about 10 times the diameter of the biggest planet (Jupiter).
Because the sun is farther away from earth than the moon.