OT - Sun, Planets, Dwarf Planets, Moons, Asteroids, Comets - Sizes & Distances from Sun

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Sun diameter = 864,938 miles

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Mercury diameter = 3,031 miles
Mercury distance from Sun = 35 million miles
Mercury Moons = 0

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Venus diameter = 7,521 miles
Venus distance from Sun = 67 million miles
Venus Moons = 0

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Earth diameter = 7,926 miles
Earth distance from Sun = 93 million miles
Earth Moons = 1

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Mars diameter = 4,222 miles
Mars distance from Sun = 142 million miles
Mars Moons = 2

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Asteroid Belt width = 93 million miles
Asteroid Belt distance from Sun =204.43 million to 297.45 million miles
Asteroid Belt average distance between asteroids = 600,000 miles
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 583 miles = 1 (Ceres) *
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 326 miles = 1 (Vesta)
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 318 miles = 1 (Pallas)
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 269 miles = 1 (Hygiea)
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 205 miles = 1 (Interamnia)
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 195 miles = 1 (Europa)
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 192 miles = 1 (Davida)
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 167 miles = 1 (Euphrosyne)
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 161 miles = 1 (Eunomia)
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 145 miles = 1 (Juno)
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 139 miles = 1 (Herculina)
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 120 miles = 1 (Psyche)
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 62 to 119 miles = 227
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 31 to 61 miles = 600
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 18 to 30 miles = 1,100
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 6 to 17 miles = 10,000
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 3 to < 6 miles = 90,000
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 1.8 to < 3 miles = 200,000
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of .6 to < 1.8 miles = 750,000
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 587 to 1,093 yards = 2,000,000
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 328 to 586 yards = 4,000,000
Asteroid Belt number with diameter of 109 to 327 yards = 25,000,000 **

* Ceres is also classified as a Dwarf Planet
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/ceres/overview/

** Per the following article, there are over 150 million
asteroids having a diameter of 100 meters (109 yards) or larger
https://www.universetoday.com/97571/how-many-asteroids-are-out-there/

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Jupiter diameter = 88,729 miles
Jupiter distance from Sun = 484 million miles
Jupiter Moons = 79

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Saturn diameter = 74,600 miles
Saturn distance from Sun = 889 million miles
Saturn Moons = 82

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Uranus diameter = 32,600 miles
Uranus distance from Sun = 1.79 billion miles
Uranus Moons = 27

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Neptune diameter = 30,200 miles
Neptune distance from Sun = 2.8 billion miles
Neptune Moons = 14

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Dwarf Planet Pluto diameter = 1,476 miles
Pluto distance from Sun = 3.67 billion miles
Pluto Moons = 5

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Dwarf Planet Haumea diameter = 670 miles
Haumea distance from Sun = 4.01 billion miles
Hamea Moons = 2

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Dwarf Planet Makemake diameter = 888 miles
Makemake distance from Sun = 4.253 billion miles
Makemake Moons = 1

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Dwarf Planet Eris diameter = 1,445 miles
Eris distance from Sun = 8.9559 billion miles
Eris Moons = 1

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Comets diameter = nucleus of .6 to 6 miles (most comets; some are smaller or larger)
Comets coma & hydrogen cloud = as much as 2,000,000 miles across
Comets tail = as long as 300,000,000 miles
Comets distance from the Sun varies, with eliptical orbits for the tiny minority
that fall towards the Sun; short period comets are in the Kuiper Belt 2.79 to
4.65 billion miles from the Sun; however, the overwhelming majority (up to a
trillion) are long period comets residing very far away in the Oort Cloud
186 billion to 8.6 trillion miles from the Sun

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References:

Sun Diameter
https://www.space.com/17001-how-big-is-the-sun-size-of-the-sun.html

Planet Diameters
https://sciencing.com/order-planets-distance-sun-8371065.html

Planet Distances from Sun
https://www.universetoday.com/15462/how-far-are-the-planets-from-the-sun/

Dwarf Planets
https://theplanets.org/dwarf-planets/

Pluto
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/pluto/in-depth/

Haumea
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/haumea/in-depth/

Makemake
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/makemake/in-depth/

Eris
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/dwarf-planets/eris/in-depth/

Moons
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_satellites

Asteroid Belt Width & Distance from Sun
https://www.universetoday.com/130230/far-asteroid-belt-sun/

Asteroid Belt Number / Diameters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Eunomia
https://nineplanets.org/juno/
https://largest.org/nature/asteroids/
https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Euphrosyne

How many Comets?
http://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Rosetta/How_many_comets_are_there

Anatomy of a Comet
https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/exploring-the-planets/online/solar-system/comets/anatomy.cfm

Kuiper Belt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuiper_belt

Oort Cloud
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oort_cloud

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Video:

Watch This Guy Build a Massive Solar System
in the Desert (with distances & sizes matching
actual distances & sizes if the Earth was re-
duced to the size of a marble)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4524AAZdE

Sun = 4.92 feet in diameter
Mercury = 224 feet from Sun
Venus = 447 feet from Sun
Earth = 579 feet from Sun
Mars = 881 feet from Sun
Jupiter = .57 miles from Sun
Saturn = 1.1 miles from Sun
Uranus = 2.1 miles from Sun
Neptune = 3.5 miles from Sun

Not shown, the 5 Dwarf Planets (Pluto, Ceres, Makemake,
Haumea, Eris)

Not shown, Asteroid Belt 1,268.3 to 1,845.4 feet from Sun

Not shown, Comets in Kuiper Belt 3.4875 to 5.8125 miles from Sun
and Comets in Oort Cloud 232.5 to 10,750 miles from Sun

To show Comets, he'd need a much bigger desert, perhaps
on a large planet close to a nearby star as the largest desert
on Earth, the Sahara desert, is only 3,000 miles wide

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