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I'd honestly never heard this stat before, and it's pretty amazing how well they tightly

fit
together.
I ran into this intriguing infographic over on Reddit that claimed that you could fit all
the planets of the Solar System within the average distance between the Earth and the
Moon. I thought it would be a good idea to double check the math, just to be absolutely
certain. I pulled my numbers from NASA's Solar System Fact Sheets, and they're a little
different from the original infographic, but close enough that the comparison is still
valid.
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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