• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    Actual fun fact though you can fit every planet in the solar system between the earth and the moon at the same time. Unlike this photo it’s actually really far off.

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      To get a sense… take any ball as a scale model of Earth and roll it 10 times in one direction. That would be the scale distance to the moon.

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        Man, that would have to be something like 31.415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679 times the earth’s diameter…

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          Yes, 10 circumferences. Earth is about 24,000 miles in circumference. Moon is more than 240,000 miles distant.