All The Planets Fit Between The Earth And The Moon

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Oct 302014
 

Did you know: you can fit all of the planets in our Solar System in between the Earth and the Moon?

All The Planets Fit Between The Earth And The Moon

To illustrate the distance between the Earth and the Moon, reddit user PerplexingPotato posted an image that placed the other seven planets in our solar system between them.

Planet Average Diameter (km)
Mercury 4,879
Venus 12,104
Mars 6,771
Jupiter 139,822
Saturn 116,464
Uranus 50,724
Neptune 49,244
Total 380,008

 

The average distance from the Earth to the Moon is 384,400 km. And check it out, that leaves us with 4,392 km to spare.

So what could we do with the rest of that distance? Well, we could obviously fit Pluto into that slot. It’s around 2,300 km across. Which leaves us about 2,092 km to play with. We could fit one more dwarf planet in there (not Eris though, too big).

The amazing Wolfram-Alpha can make this calculation for you automatically: total diameter of the planets. Although, this includes the diameter of Earth too.

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How Common Is Your Birthday?

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Sep 242014
 

Why you might be saying “Happy Birthday!” some days more than others…

How Common Is Your Birthday

A chart posted online purports to show the most common birthdays for babies to be born in.

The graphic, created by a user on Reddit, was based off data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to the chart, most babies seem to be born in the month of September, about nine months following the holiday season.

In contrast, actual holidays are the least-common dates for new births, the chart reveals.

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