A planetary fruit salad

Here is a planetary fruit salad – a scale model of objects in the solar system (click to zoom). The Moon and the smaller planets are on the top left saucer. The lower right saucer represents the rings of Saturn.

On this scale (roughly 1 to 2 billion), the Moon is 19 centimetres from the Earth, the Earth is 73 metres from the Sun, Jupiter is 380 metres from the Sun, and Pluto is around 3 kilometres from the Sun.

Object	Diameter	Scaled Diameter	Model
Sun	1,392,700 km	68 cm	Beach ball (not shown)
Mercury	4,879 km	0.24 cm	Mustard seed (yellow)
Venus	12,104 km	0.59 cm	Chickpea
Earth	12,756 km	0.62 cm	Chickpea (coloured blue)
Moon	3,475 km	0.17 cm	Mustard seed (black)
Mars	6,792 km	0.33 cm	Peppercorn (black)
Jupiter	142,984 km	7 cm	Orange
Saturn	120,536 km	5.9 cm	Lemon
Saturn’s Rings (up to F)	280,360 km	14 cm	Saucer
Uranus	51,118 km	2.5 cm	Grape
Neptune	49,528 km	2.4 cm	Grape
Pluto	2,377 km	0.12 cm	Poppy seed

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