You Could Fit All the Planets Between the Earth and the Moon

Winston · Oct 26, 2014

Initially a surprise to me, but not so much once I really thought about it:

https://www.universetoday.com/115672/you-could-fit-all-the-planets-between-the-earth-and-the-moon/

Article mentioned this neat site I didn't know about:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=total+diameter+of+the+planets+

423yjl · Oct 26, 2014

ooooh neat

les · Oct 26, 2014

And if Pluto gets re-established as a planet it would fit as well (1471 miles / 2368 km)

Of course for the planets to fit they had to tip Saturn's rings out of the way......

And talk about planetary alignment!

KennB · Oct 26, 2014

Still room to fit Pluto if it were still considered a planet (1,430 miles in diameter). - les posted while I was typing.

This would have made for more difficult Apollo missions but they would have been able to gather much more data. :wink:

I don't want to think about what growing up on the shore would have been like with tides like this would have produced. :jaw:

Zeus-cat · Oct 26, 2014

But you have to tip Saturn on it's side to get it in.

jmattingly13 · Oct 26, 2014

Then when you turn gravity back on, the whole thing turns disastrous, and it would be technically difficult to say the planets fit between the Earth and Moon.

K'Tesh · Oct 26, 2014

KennB said:
I don't want to think about what growing up on the shore would have been like with tides like this would have produced. :jaw:

I could imagine the rings that Saturn would leave... :wink:

ThirstyBarbarian · Oct 27, 2014

jmattingly13 said:
Then when you turn gravity back on, the whole thing turns disastrous, and it would be technically difficult to say the planets fit between the Earth and Moon.

Very quickly you would have one big planet, and it would probably be hot and stormy.

shreadvector · Oct 27, 2014

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/WRLDTFTMZW1977.jpg

ThirstyBarbarian · Oct 27, 2014

shreadvector said:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/WRLDTFTMZW1977.jpg

That is one of the few Larry Niven books I never read.

shreadvector · Oct 27, 2014

It exists as an audiobook....

ThirstyBarbarian said:
That is one of the few Larry Niven books I never read.

boomtube-mk2 · Oct 27, 2014

But then what would you do with all that emptiness between the Moon and the Kuiper Belt?

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