Monday, February 4, 2013

If I Had One-Hundred Dollars


If our solar system represented $100 dollars, how would you break up that money to proportionally represent the mass inside of the solar system.

Sun- $80 correct answer $99.85
Mars- $.50 correct answer $0.00004
Venus- $.50 correct answer $0.0003
Earth- $2 correct answer $0.0003
Mercury- $2 correct answer $0.00002
Jupiter- $4 correct answer $0.106
Saturn- $4 correct answer $0.032
Uranus- $1 correct answer $0.006
Neptune- $1 correct answer $0.005
Satellites- $1 correct answer $ almost nothing
Minor Elements- $3 correct answer $ almost nothing
         (comets, asteroids, Trans-Neptunian Objects's, etc.)

Order of the Planets:
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos.

The Solar System to Scale
http://www.scalesolarsystem.66ghz.com/

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