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File:Solar System-Scaled Size & Scaled Distance.png

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|description={{en|1=The Sun and eight planets of the Solar System (along with a selection of five dwarf planets) with sizes shown to scale as well as distances shown scaled to an American football field (roughly 13 meters shorter than a standard soccer, or Association football field). At this scale, the Sun is two-thirds the diameter of a golf ball, and each of the four Gas Giants are smaller than a BB pellet. Each of the four terrestrial planets are significantly smaller than a flea. Pluto and other dwarf planets are smaller than a flea egg.
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|description={{en|1=The Sun and eight planets of the Solar System (along with a selection of five dwarf planets) with sizes shown to scale as well as distances shown scaled to an American football field (roughly 13 meters shorter than a standard soccer, or Association football field). At this scale, the Sun is two-thirds the diameter of a golf ball, and each of the four Gas Giants are smaller than a BB pellet. Each of the four terrestrial planets are significantly smaller than a flea. Pluto and other dwarf planets (not shown) are smaller than a flea egg.

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The top section of this image shows the Solar System with its eight planets and its five known dwarf planets in relation to the Sun, with sizes drawn to scale.
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The top section of this image shows the Solar System with its eight planets in relation to the Sun, with sizes drawn to scale.

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In the bottom section, the distance from the Sun to the farthest planet, Neptune, is scaled down to the length of an American football field with 100 yards from goal line to goal line. All 14 objects are spotted at their scaled yardage along the gridiron, with pointers toward the location of Pluto and the other outer dwarf planets far off to the right of the field. The distances are labeled in whole yards, with brackets identifying the span of their elliptical orbits (Pluto's perihelion is shown to take it onto the playing field just inside of Neptune's orbit). At the top of the chart is a list of the diameters of each body as they would be found when shrunk down to this gridiron scale. The exact scale factor is 49,250,000,000-to-1.}}
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In the bottom section, the distance from the Sun to the farthest planet, Neptune, is scaled down to the length of an American football field with 100 yards from goal line to goal line. All planets are spotted at their scaled yardage along the gridiron, with brackets identifying the span of their elliptical orbits (on the sideline, Pluto's perihelion is shown to take it onto the playing field just inside of Neptune's orbit). The exact scale factor is 49,250,000,000-to-1.}}

|date=2013-03-29 05:07:32

|date=2013-03-29 05:07:32

|source=This image is a simplified version of [[:File:Solar System scaled to a football field.png]] [[File:Solar System scaled to a football field.png|120px|File:Solar System scaled to a football field.png]]

|source=This image is a simplified version of [[:File:Solar System scaled to a football field.png]] [[File:Solar System scaled to a football field.png|120px|File:Solar System scaled to a football field.png]]

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