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The comparative sizes of the sun and the planets

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The comparative sizes of the sun and the planets.jpg Diagram Showing the Main Layers of the SunThumbnailsThe Planets, Showing their Relative Distances and DimensionsDiagram Showing the Main Layers of the SunThumbnailsThe Planets, Showing their Relative Distances and DimensionsDiagram Showing the Main Layers of the SunThumbnailsThe Planets, Showing their Relative Distances and DimensionsDiagram Showing the Main Layers of the SunThumbnailsThe Planets, Showing their Relative Distances and DimensionsDiagram Showing the Main Layers of the SunThumbnailsThe Planets, Showing their Relative Distances and DimensionsDiagram Showing the Main Layers of the SunThumbnailsThe Planets, Showing their Relative Distances and Dimensions
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(Drawn approximately to scale)

On this scale the Sun would be 17½ inches in diameter; it is far greater than all the planets put together. Jupiter, in turn, is greater than all the other planets put together.

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4), by J. Arthur Thomson
Published in 1922
Available from gutenberg.org
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