Length shifting - MegaMeters in your hands (original) (raw)

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Megameters in your hands 106 meters per mm (Magnification of ×10-9) **10 [ -6 | -3 0 3 6 9 12 15 18 ]** If the Sun is a big beachball... 109 meters per meter

Links

The relative size of Earth, Jupiter, Sun (1 : 10 : 100)

Doables: Move your finger at light speed... Sun color wrong.

Other meta info on zero magnification page.

Notes: Sun image from Today's Space Weather. Size from Sun[link broken]. Jupiter image and size from Jupiter[link broken]. Image is allegedly true color from Hubble. Star comparison sketches from How Big is That Star?

History: 2003-Feb-03 Repaired links - 5 fixed, 2 flagged. 2001.Apr.20 Added link to How Big Are Things?'. 1998.Jun.17 Corrected error with magnitude boundaries (3.333->3.162). 1998.May.20 Added link to Jupiter & Io picture. 1998.May.20 Added star size comparison sketches. 1997.Oct.21 Moved The relative size...' link from Doables into page. 1997.Sep.12 Added moon. 1997.Sep.04 Hacked in a quick lt·s scale. Eh. 1997.Aug.28 Added sun and jupiter images. 1997.Aug.25 Created.