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If the sun was a football and the earth was a pea how far apart would they be?
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∙ 13y ago
If the Earth was a pea, then the Sun would be about the size of a Basketball.
At that scale, the Earth would be 107 feet away.
Mars would be a peppercorn and Jupiter would be a ping pong ball, 555 feet away.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoIf everything in the neighborhood shrinks down so that the sun winds up the size of a
basketball, with a diameter of 1-ft, then the earth is a small ball-bearing ... about 0.11 inch
in diameter ... orbiting the basketball at a distance of about 108-ft.
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∙ 14y agoThis is a great question !
First of all ... I learned this while researching ... did you realize that the NBA, the NCAA, and the
International Basketball Federation all have different rules for the size of the basketball ? ! ?
I just thought I'd throw that in, so you'd know how hard we work here at WA to give you answers
that you can rely on. :-)
I settled on a diameter of 9.5 inches. (Trust me ... that's close enough to all 3 sets of rules.)
If you shrunk everything down so that the sun wound up being the size of this basketball, then
the earth would be 85.2 feet distant from the sun.
(And the earth itself would be 0.09 inch in diameter ... about 1/2 the size of the shot for a modern BB gun !)
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