The Sun-Earth System

1. Scale model Earth-Sun sizes

The diameter of Earth is about12,756 kilometers(km), or about 8000 miles. The Sun is a huge ball of hot hydrogen gas1,400,000 km(1.4 x 10⁶km) in diameter (about 1 million miles).

Determine thediameterof the object representing your scale model Sun.

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