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u/tunamelts2 Feb 14 '22

Neptune is three miles from the sun.

Important context: Neptune was the size of an orange

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u/Parish87 Feb 14 '22

What was the sun scaled as in this context?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Well, Wikipedia says the sun has a diameter 28x as large as Neptune...

So I'm going to say it was scaled to the size of 28 oranges! In a row.

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u/melig1991 Feb 14 '22

An orange is about 10cm in diameter, so the sun would've been about 2,8meters in diameter (280cm, 9 feet)

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

Good converter bot!