Size Comparism Of The Moons Of The Gas Planets, Moon Systems of the gas giants compared |
Size Comparism Of The Moons Of The Gas Planets, Moon Systems of the gas giants compared |
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Nov 15 2005, 12:10 AM
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Nov 17 2005, 10:34 PM
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QUOTE A whole series is needed, really... I've thought about something along the concept of "Powers of Ten" going from the Sun to ??whatever. Or maybe from ??whatever to the Oort cloud... That might be too much though... --Bill -------------------- |
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Nov 19 2005, 09:52 AM
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Here is a scale diagram of the satellite orbital distances. The planets are to scale, but each satellite is only one pixel (so dust off your screen). This includes every satellite over some threshold (I forget what that was)... plus Phobos and Deimos. The real upshot here is the revelation that Iapetus is so far out! Also, it's interesting to see that the orbits of Deimos and Charon would fit inside the gas giants.
http://www.cogsci.indiana.edu/farg/rehling...moon-orbits.gif |
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Nov 19 2005, 01:13 PM
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Solor Sytsem?
Ooops! Bob Shaw -------------------- Remember: Time Flies like the wind - but Fruit Flies like bananas!
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