Procedure:Use 1 mm for the diameter of the sun. Fill in the table below with the size of each planet and the size of its orbit radius if the sun was 1 mm in diameter. Calculate the values for the table using the following formula. The Sun’s scale diameter is 1 mm. The actual distance is the body diameter or orbit radius you are trying to find and the Sun’s actual diameter is given in the table below. The answer will be in mm. To convert to meters for the orbit radius, you need to divide mm by 1000:
Procedure: Use 1 mm for the diameter of the sun. Fill in the table below with the size of each
planet and the size of its orbit radius if the sun was 1 mm in diameter. Calculate the values for
the table using the following formula. The Sun’s scale diameter is 1 mm. The actual distance is
the body diameter or orbit radius you are trying to find and the Sun’s actual diameter is given in
the table below. The answer will be in mm. To convert to meters for the orbit radius, you need to
divide mm by 1000:
Sun’s Scale Diameter*(Actual Distance) / Sun’s Actual Diameter = Scale Distance
BODY
BODY DIAMETER
(KM)
BODY DIAMETER
(MM)
ORBIT RADIUS
(KM)
ORBIT RADIUS
(METERS)
SUN
1391900
1
–
–
MERCURY
4866
57950000
VENUS
12106
108110000
EARTH
12742
149570000
MARS
6760
227840000
JUPITER
142984
778140000
SATURN
116438
1427000000
URANUS
46940
2870300000
NEPTUNE
45432
4499900000
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