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  2. List of Solar System objects by size - Wikipedia

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    These lists contain the Sun, the planets, dwarf planets, many of the larger small Solar System bodies (which includes the asteroids), all named natural satellites, and a number of smaller objects of historical or scientific interest, such as comets and near-Earth objects.

  3. Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Sun, Earth size ...

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    File:Sun, Earth size comparison labeled.jpg The sun and the earth. Size comparison only. The Earth and Sun are approximately 150 gigameters (1AU) or around 107 suns apart. File:Sun, Earth size comparison.jpg Without text Not for voting. The Earth and moon, shown to scale including correct relative distance. An amazing picture of the sun and the ...

  4. File:Triton, Earth & Moon size comparison.jpg - Wikipedia

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    The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg FullMoon2010.jpg Triton moon mosaic Voyager 2 (large).jpg: Author: Apollo 17 Picture of the Whole Earth: NASA. Telescopic Image of the Full Moon: Gregory H. Revera Image of Triton: NASA/JPL/USGS

  5. File:Comparison angular diameter solar system.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: Comparison of angular diameter of the Sun, Moon and planets with the International Space Station (as seen from the surface of the Earth), the 20/20 row of the Snellen eye chart at the proper viewing distance and typical human visual acuity. The dotted circles represent the minimum angular size (when the celestial bodies are farthest ...

  6. Moon - Wikipedia

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    The Earth appears in the Moon's sky with an apparent size of 1° 48 ′ to 2°, [295] three to four times the size of the Moon or Sun in Earth's sky, or about the apparent width of two little fingers at an arm's length away.

  7. Natural satellite - Wikipedia

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    Size comparison of Earth and the Moon There is no established lower limit on what is considered a "moon". Every natural celestial body with an identified orbit around a planet of the Solar System , some as small as a kilometer across, has been considered a moon, though objects a tenth that size within Saturn's rings, which have not been ...

  8. File:Moon, Earth size comparison.jpg - Wikipedia

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  9. On the Sizes and Distances (Aristarchus) - Wikipedia

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    The apparent size of the Sun and the Moon in the sky. The size of the Earth's shadow in relation to the Moon during a lunar eclipse; The angle between the Sun and Moon during a half moon is 90°. The rest of the article details a reconstruction of Aristarchus' method and results. [4] The reconstruction uses the following variables: