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07/01/2005: "If the globe in the dining room were really the actual Earth"

The Earth would be 3590.8 meters from the sun which translates to 2.23 miles

The globe is 30.56 cm in diameter or 12.03 inches
Mercury would be 11.3 cm in diameter or 4.45 inches
It's distance from the sun would be 1392.3 meters or .86 miles
Venus would be 29.33 cm in diameter or 11.54 inches
It's distance from the sun would be 2591.4 meters or 1.6 miles
Mars would be 15.58 cm in diameter or 6.13 inches
It's distance from the sun would be 5.491 kilometers or 3.41 miles
Jupiter would be 3.35 meters in diameter ot 10.99 feet
It's distance would be 18.67 kilometers or 11.6 miles
Saturn would be 2.76 meters in diameter or 9.05 feet
It's distance would be 34.23 kilometers or 21.27 miles
Uranus would be 1.13 meters in diameter or 3.7 feet
It's distance would be 69 kilometers or 42.9 miles
Neptune would be 1.05 meters in diameter or 3.44 feet
It's distance would be 108.18 kilometers or 67.23 miles
Pluto would be 13.75 cm in diameter or 5.413 inches
It's distance would be 141.8 kilometers or 88.13 miles
The sun's diameter would be 33.42 meters or 36.56 yards

The moon would be 3.28 inches in diameter
It would be 30.3 feet from the Earth (dining room globe)
It would travel 3.17 inches/hour in it's orbit

Velocities of planets in their orbits
The Earth would travel 8.43 feet/ hour (this is the speed all globes of the Earth would probably travel were they the real thing), this means it would also travel 202.32 feet in any given day
Mercury would travel 13.562 feet/hour
Venus would travel 9.7604 feet/hour
Mars would t ravel 6.867 feet/hour
Jupiter would travel 3.7 feet/hour
Saturn would travel 2.733 feet/hour

Uranus would travel 1.932 ft/hr
Neptune would travel 1.54 ft/hr
Pluto would travel 1.34 feet/hr

Volume of planets
Mercury .76 Liters or 1.6 Pints

Venus would be 13.18 Liters or 3.4 Gallons
Earth would be 15.16 Liters or 4 Gallons
Mars would be 1.98 Liters or 2.09 Gallons
Jupiter would be 19,400 Liters 5,125 Gallons
Saturn would be 10,992 Liters 2,904 Gallons
Uranus would be 750 Liters 198.1 Gallons
Neptune would be 603 Liters 159.31 Gallons
Pluto would be 1.36 Liters 1.437 Quartz
The Sun would be 19,531 Kiloliters or 19,531,000 Liters or 5,160,105.6 Gallons
The Moon 302 milliliters or 10.2 fluid ounces

Weight of planets based on average densities according to scientist people
Mercury 3.9 kg or 1.79 lbs
Venus 67.218kg or 30.55 lbs
Earth would be 37.9 lbs
Mars would be 7.92 kg or 3.6 lbs
Jupiter would be 25 metric tons (Megagrams) or 22.9 short tons
Saturn would be 7.69 metric tons (Megagrams) or 6.9 short tons
Uranus would be 1.32 metric tons or 1.2 short tons

Neptune would be 1.2 metric tons or 1.09 short tons
Pluto would be 5.4 kg or 2.45 lbs
The Sun would weigh 27,500 Metric tons or 10,257,500 lbs

The Star Betelgeuse (A super Red Giant in the Orion constellation) would be 8 miles in diameter

A few moons
IO 3.44 inches in diameter. distance from jupiter 33.17 feet, velocity in orbit 4.9 feet/hr, weight = 3.757 kg or 1.71 lbs
Europa 2.95 inches, distance = 52.8 feet from jupiter, velocity in orbit 3.9 feet/hr, weight = 2.025 kg or .921 lbs

Anyway that gives you some idea of the size of the solar system. That it is huge. Interstellar distances are still unfathomable. Alpha Centauri, the closest star to our sun is still way past the moon. And the size of the galaxy is still tremendous let alone the visible universe. Not that anything anybody says is necessarily true. I'm not endorsing any cosmology or world view only playing around with one of them

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