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A Sense of Planetary Scale

by Nancy Atkinson on January 29, 2011

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Scale from Brad Goodspeed on Vimeo.

This is great! Blogger Brad Goodspeed created an animation which shows different planets in our solar system as they would appear in the sky if it shared an orbit with our Moon, 380,000 km from earth. On his blog, he said he created it “to make you feel small.” You succeeded, Brad!

He explains how he created the video on his blog, BradBlogSpeed.com

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Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the host of the NASA Lunar Science Institute podcast and works with the Astronomy Cast and 365 Days of Astronomy podcasts. Nancy is also a NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador.

Tagged as: Solar System

  • gopher65

    Heh, Jupiter is HUGE. That would be well inside the Roche limit of Jupiter though, wouldn’t it? So you couldn’t ever actually have that view from a reasonably sized body.

  • glencoe2

    As far as I can remember Io orbits at about 420,000km, So another 40K to the Roche limit? I’m not sure what effect the increased size of the earth would have, but we might be able to orbit Jupiter at that distance.

  • http://delphinus100.angelfire.com/link3.htm delphinus100

    If not, there would still be some serious tidal effects, assuming we still had a 24hr day…

    • renoor

      imagine kilometers high waves sweeping whole continents every day…after few years (or centuries?), there would be no land left, just a water world eventually freezing out to Europa’s big twin moon.

  • Lawrence B. Crowell

    With Neptune and Jupiter these planets would not be orbiting the Earth so much as Earth would orbit them.

    LC

    • glencoe2

      And even with mars we may be orbiting a common center of Gravity that is in space, similar to Pluto and Charon.

  • http://home.comcast.net/~jacobsdale/Myfishingbuddy.pps Aqua

    What? No Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Quaoar or Sedna?

    • http://home.comcast.net/~jacobsdale/Myfishingbuddy.pps Aqua

      Oops… Neptune WAS included..

  • http://HOLOGRAPHICGALAXY.blogspot.com HOLOGRAPHICGALAXY.blogspot.com

    Quasars, SMBH AGN, Blazars, Radio, Seyferts, Spiral, Active Galaxies all are the same phenomena dependent upon the viewing alignment direction of the observer. NASA and ESA say it is believed by most astronomers today by an evolving unified galaxy model, the most accepted is that blazars are nearly directly aligned jets. Quasars are all sky and where less dust obscures the AGN at a 45 degree 3D orientation. Radio galaxies conceal the AGN aligned with their torus of gas and dust. We would appreciate comments about our Holographic Galaxy Unified Model.

    • Hon. Salacious B. Crumb

      Firstly I hope this and your comment are deleted. It is blatant advertising, from someone who is not even interested in the topic here!
      Really. What has this to do with planetary scales?
      I can only conclude you don’t know the difference, which then means you don’t know what you’re talking about, and you’re wasting everybody’s time. If do know the difference, the your just as silly.
      So if you want to “appreciate comments”, here’s one, its simply balderdash!

      Have a nice one… whatever your name is!!

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