Astronomy question: 1. If you used a basketball to represent the Sun and a ping-

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Astronomy question:

1. If you used a basketball to represent the Sun and a ping-pong ball to represent the Earth and set them apart at the distance you answered in Question# 6, would this be an accurate scale model of the Sun and Earth system? Briefly explain your answer.

2. How many Moons would fit side-by-side across the diameter of the Sun? (There’s enough information in the previous questions for you to figure this out.)

3. About how many times could the Moon’s orbital diameter fit between the Sun and the Earth?

4. In the Cosmic Calendar year, (approximately) how many years does one second represent?

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2,solution

we already know that 4 moons would fit across the diametre of the earth and 110 earths would fit across the diametre of the sun 4*110 = 440

3.solution

moon's orbital diameter is 480,000 miles.

distance to sun is 93,000,000 miles

93,000,000 / 480,000 = 194 times

4.solution

in the calendar calculations

1 calendar day = 37.5 million years

1 calendar hour = 1.56 million years

1 calendar minute = 26050 years

1 calendar second = 434 years

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