Asked by rafael

how do you scale a solar system model? in the model, how far away from the earth would be the sun?
Answered by R_scott
the average Earth-Sun distance is 1.5E8 km

~solar diameter is 1.4E6 km

so the Earth is about a hundred times farther from the Sun
... than the sun is across
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