How many earths could fit inside a ball the size of the sun?

Answer 1

Short Answer: 1.3 million

Detailed Answer:

A sphere the volume of the Sun would be approximately equal to 1,300,000 times the volume of the Earth. However, this would imply that all the Earths had been been crushed to eliminate the space between them.

Sun - Volume: 1.412 x 1018 km3

Earth - Volume: 1.0832 x 1012 km3

Answer 2

Recently I read about a comparison of distance using something that could be visualized. An atom is made of an electron orbiting a nucleus. Hydrogen has 1 electron orbiting a nucleus; and a scientist was asked to describe the distance from that nucleus to that orbiting electron. He started by talking about Angstrom Units. He stopped and then said imagine a football stadium. Imagine standing at the fifty yard line. Imagine you are standing dead center. Now put a grape down dead center. If you were to climb onto the wall behind the highest seats and walk around the stadium on the wall. You would be as far from the grape as the electron is from the nucleus. What a great visual! That being said... Imagine that you are standing at the 25 yard line on a football field. Next, imagine you place a cherry or a green grape (about 1 inch wide) on the line. The grape is the Earth. Pick a spot 16 inches away and put down a green pea. The green pea is the moon. If you had a 9 foot wide beach ball you would put it at the goal line. The beach ball is the sun. The distance from Earth to the Sun is called an Astronomic Unit or 1AU. The distances from the sun to the rest of the planets can be found in AU's too and a little math will help you work it out. In my solar system the distance from the earth to the sun is called 1BAU (Bob's Astronomic Unit ) and is equal to 900 inches or 25 yards.

My solar system is based on the idea of the earth being 1 inch (like a big grape). A baseball is 2 7/8 to 3 inches in diameter So if your Earth is 3 times bigger... then your solar system is three time bigger. Your Sun sitting at the goal line will be 27 feet wide, and your Earth (a Baseball) will be at the 75 yard line. Your moon will be my grape and it will be 48 inches or 4 feet away. Remember when you work it out Your Astronomic Unit (YAU) is 75 yards.

Mercury is 0.3 AU

Venus is 0.7 AU

Mars is 1.4 AU

Jupiter is 5.2 AU

Saturn is 9.8 AU

Uranus is 19.2 AU

Neptune is 30.1 AU

Pluto is 39.5 AU

Answer 3

The Earth has diameter of about 12,742 km (radius of 6,371 km) and crust thickness of 30 km, A men's Basketball has a diameter of 24.26 cm (radius of 12.13 cm)

Obviously the crust to radius ratio is 30:6,371 or 1:213

The crust equivalent thickness on a man's basketball would then be:

12.13/213= 0.057 cm or 0.57 mm

By comparison the normal basketball has a 0.125-in. wall thickness (about 3mm). This is about 5.25 time s as thick as the crust on the basketball sized Earth.

Answer 4

It would be more or less the size of a pea. Keep in mind the great distance between the sun and the earth.

Answer 5

If the Sun was 1 ft across instead of 865,000 miles, the nearest star would be about 5500 miles away.

Answer 6

The earth would probably be the size of an ant or smaller

Answer 7

Approximately 1.3 million Earths could fit inside a ball the size of the Sun. The Sun's volume is about 1.3 million times that of Earth.

Answer 8

the size of a green pea