Odd-Ball Picture of the Day

So, we've all seen those images of the solar system with all the planets all in a neat line, and all of them large enough to be easily recognizable.I knew that wasn't the case, so I wanted to try & come up with some scale using a well known spherical marker as the sun. Here in DFW, that's gotta be Reunion Tower. It's on every Dallas postcard & the 37 meter diameter ball even lights up.



So here's where Earth would orbit in a solar system of that scale. It would be 9428 feet away and sport a diameter of 13.3 inches.



Here's the rest of the planets... (and Pluto, because back in MY day, we had NINE planets! ). The inner rocky four just look like a red splotch. Neptune and Pluto cross into Oklahoma. This is Pluto's aphelion representing its orbit. The perihelion is actually inside Neptune's orbit. The nearest star, Proxima Centauri, would be 68000 miles away on this scale; about 1/3 the actual distance to the moon.



Here's the googleearth file if anyone wants to peruse this further: http://www.filedropper.com/planetaryorbits

 

Chose a nice neighborhood though.

 

I'm surprised it chose this neighborhood, actually, with the abundance of cougars around.

 

VTAS? Haven't heard about that since the F-4 left.

Somethin' oughta' be done about all these uppity suburban aMiNals. I read somewhere that coyotes are on the up-and-up in populated areas. Apparently, they're everywhere, but almost no one sees them.

 

That's what I need....a neighborhood of cougars!

 

You'd probably just hurt yourself.

 

Hey @BigBird. Think deBlasio will let you in the city with this?

 

Someone didn't think this all the way through.

 

Yeah on a few levels that's not good

 

Didn't know his name was Big Richard.

 

Slingin' more than just web.

 

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Hell no. There's already too many damn mini-vans.

 

Holy crap!!!

 

That a CRX?....