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[–] Reddfugee42 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Always time for one of my favorite fun facts:

The moon is so far away from the earth that all the planets in the solar system could fit between the earth and the moon.

I mean, not for long, but it would be worth it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hold on a second. You can fit Jupiter and Uranus in there?

WTF?! I have to check this.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ok shortest distance earth moon surface: 340 000 km.

  1. Diameter Jupiter: 143 000 km
  2. Diameter Uranus: 51 000 km
  3. Diameter Neptun: 49 500 km
  4. Venus: 12 000 km
  5. Mars: 6 800 km
  6. Mercury: 4 800 km

Earth: 12 800 km

Damn I even can fit an another earth in there and it is still plenty of space

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Saturn?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is 116 500 km, so we're missing the mark with a little more than 43 000 km.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well 340 is the shortest distance of the orbit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

True! But that was also what you used 😜 I looked up the average distance though, which seems to be 385 000 km. Which means we would fit everyone with about 2 000 km to spare 😃

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The interesting part is that it would be kind of a close fit, astronomically speaking