proportional size of the planets!

[GRiM]

Edit: Maybe someone can move this post to "Outer Space and "Inner Space" Sciences" ? I guss thats a better category.

I found a few really great pictures of our planets and sun with the proportion aspect fully visible. I find it kinda funny that Uranus is bigger then Earth, so imature, sry. ^_^
Enjoy!

edit2: found a few more...

edit3:

 

[anart]

That's the first time I've seen this kind of visual scale shown - very interesting.

 

[GRiM]

Seems size (doesn

 

[Johnno]

Cool.... Thanks.

 

[Tarri]

Do you have the webpage that you found that on? I would like to look more into it. Thanks for sharing it. Tarri

 

[GRiM]

I have had them on my disk for a while, and I got them from a friend via IM. (msn, etc..) I

 

[Tarri]

Thank you. Tarri

 

[GRiM]

Lol @ http:(double slash)www(dot)rense(dot)com/general72/size.htm

edit: Posted one day before I posted, yeah sure! (06-22 vs 06-23)
Can anyone confirm that it was posted 22:nd, I feel that its a to big coincident.

I shouldnt care but after the last two podcasts its a bit embarrassing for rense, but yeah it might be a big coincident.

Found it via http://www.boingboing.net/

 

[GRiM]

Miniature image, klick the link for fullsize!

http://www.linkydinky.com/images/CelestialBodies.jpg
Enjoy.

 

[Nienna]

Hey, Grim, very cool. I've never seen the size comparisons of the planets like that, let alone the stars. Funny, I thought that Mars was a little bigger, in comparison with Earth, than it is.

And I really never thought that stars were that large. WOW. Very interesting.

Thanks.

 

[GRiM]

just wanted to update this thread:

(The Moon is 0.0026 ± 0.0001 AU* from the Earth.)

The astronomical unit (AU or au or a.u. or sometimes ua) is a unit of length approximately equal to the distance from the Earth to the Sun. The currently accepted value of the AU is 149,597,870,691 ± 30 metres (nearly 150 million kilometres or 93 million miles).