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How Big Are Things?
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big     solar system between galaxy
nano
micro
meter
kilo
Mega
Giga
Tera
Peta
Exa
  Megameter's Room - looking at a sheet of graph paper
  Mm = 106 m
look at the entire room
 
galaxy21
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local stars18
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between15
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E's orbit12
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sun9
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texas6
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hood3
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you0
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salt grain-3
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bacteria-6
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atom-9
106 m    1 Mm
107 m    10 Mm
108 m    100 Mm

  Ceres ~1 Mm
Earth ~10 Mm
the big blue marble
a marble
Jupiter ~100 Mm

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Mercury
Venus
Earth moon
Mars
Jupiter
Io Europa Ganymede Callisto
Saturn
Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus
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Uranus
Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon
Neptune Triton
( Pluto)

Sirius B (white dwarf) src

Earth

moon

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