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2. Astronomical Distances and Sizes of Planets (With Respect to Earth)

3. Sizes of the Planets in the Solar System

11. Astronomical Distances in Our Solar System

12. ( I ) Distance Between the Earth and the Moon

16. (II) Distances Between the Planets in the Solar System { 1 / 10 billion scale model }

18. Mercury (6m); Earth (15m); Jupiter (78m); Pluto (592m)

19. References General Ideas Taken From Chapter 1 in: Bennett, Jeffrey. The Cosmic Perspective. 5 th Ed. San Francisco: Pearson Education, Inc., Addison Wesley, 2009. Planetary Pictures and Chart: - http://ar.to/2006/08/our-new-solar-system - http://artlibrary.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/make-the-solar-system-in-tappan/ - http://www.saintjoe.edu/~dept14/environment/rogero/core5/celestial_compare.html - http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/multimedia/mro20080303earth.html - http://astrogeek.us/2009/08/21/scale-model-of-the-earth-and-moon/ - http://www.doe.mass.edu/mcas/student/2007/question.aspx?GradeID=8&SubjectCode =sci&QuestionTypeName=&QuestionID=5175