Length shifting - TeraMeters in your hands (original) (raw)
| Terameters in your hands 1012 meters per mm (Magnification of ×10-15) | **10 [ -6 | -3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 | 18 ]** 1015 meters per meter If the inner solar system is a grain of sugar... |
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 1 Tm |
 10 Tm |
 100 Tm |
 1000 Tm |
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| 1012 m 0.3 Tm316 Gm2.114 AU 3 Tm3162 Gm21.14 AU 109km | 1013 m | 1014 m | 1015 m |
Jupiter orbit's diameter 1.556 Tm  Sun-Saturn distance 1.425 Tm Light-hour (lt·hr) 1.079 Tm Sun-Uranus distance 2.867 Tm |
Neptune orbit's diameter 8.97 Tm "Solar system diameter" Sun-Neptune distance 4.486 Tm Kuiper-belt diameter 10 to 15+ Tm | Heliosphere size & shape uncertain Heliopause's closest edge ~20±5 Tm from SunHeliopause rough diameter ~~100 Tm |
light-month788.4 Tm |
Links
SEDS's The Kuiper Belt and The Oort Cloud
Kuiper Belt Home Page
Some heliosphere links: from Nine Planets, faucet analogy[broken], MSFC.
Doables: Add some content... Still feels quite rough. Oort cloud. What else? Heliosphere crufty. Does better data exist? Search for lt·mo scale objects.
Notes: The image of `Kuiper and orbits' was derived from the Kuiper Belt Home Page's plan view. It is slightly too large (Neptune's orbit is 10.5 mm rather than 9) :(. Dots and orbits are of course way too thick. If I was doing this more carefully, objects would be single pixels to reduce the misimplication. Kuiper-belt objects (primordial remnants, with diameters up to a few 105 m), occur in a torus, between 35 and atleast 50 AU from sun. Nature/5Mar98/v392/pg16. The heliosphere sketch was derived from MSFC's Heliosphere's heliosph.gif.
History:
2003-Feb-03 Repaired links - 5 fixed, 1 flagged.
2001.Apr.20 Added link to How Big Are Things?'. 1999.May.19 Added heliosphere (quick and crufty). Light-month. 1998.Jun.17 Corrected error with magnitude boundaries (3.333->3.162). 1998.Apr.04 Added Kuiper and orbits' image.
1998.Apr.02 Added J orbit dot.
1998.Mar.11 Created. But not released - too primative.