Exploring The Planets
Our Solar System

Size of the Sun

 

You could line up all of the planets along the
Sun's 1,392,000 kilometer equator three times and still have room left
for 1 Saturn, 4 Earths, and a Mercury.

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Our Solar System

Mercury || Venus || Earth || Mars || Asteroids || Jupiter || Saturn || Uranus
Neptune || Pluto/Charon || Comets

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