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Playing Marbles With The Planets
Wednesday, February 26, 2014 15:57
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We’ve all seen charts showing the relative sizes of planets and moons compared to each other, which are cool to look at but don’t really give a sense of the comparative masses of the various worlds in our Solar System. It’s one thing to say the Earth is four times larger than the Moon, it’s entirely another to realize it’s 87 times more massive!
That’s where this new animation from astrophysicist Rhys Taylor comes in nicely.
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Post tags: ceres, Earth, Jupiter, Mars, mass, Moon, planets, Rhys Taylor, Solar System, sun, video
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