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English: The Sun and eight planets of the Solar System with sizes shown to scale as well as distances shown scaled to an American football field (roughly 13 meters shorter than a standard soccer, or Association football field). At this scale, the Sun is two-thirds the diameter of a golf ball, and each of the four Gas Giants are smaller than a BB pellet. Each of the four terrestrial planets are significantly smaller than a flea. Pluto and other dwarf planets (not shown) are smaller than a flea egg.

The top section of this image shows the Solar System with its eight planets in relation to the Sun, with sizes drawn to scale.

In the bottom section, the distance from the Sun to the farthest planet, Neptune, is scaled down to the length of an American football field with 100 yards from goal line to goal line. All planets are spotted at their scaled yardage along the gridiron, with brackets identifying the span of their elliptical orbits (on the sideline, Pluto's perihelion is shown to take it onto the playing field just inside of Neptune's orbit). The exact scale factor is 49,250,000,000-to-1. Precise numbers for the orbit distances as a percent of Neptune's mean distance are (Mercury through Neptune respectively):

1.287%, 2.402%, 3.323%, 5.063%, 17.292%, 31.712%, 63.786%, and 100%.
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