Like Stacking Blocks
If you had a huge box and wanted to fill it with tiny toy blocks, how many would you need? That’s like what we’re doing here, just with planets instead of boxes and blocks instead of Earths.
- Jupiter is so big that about 1,300 Earths can fit inside it. It's like stacking 1,300 tiny toy blocks into a huge toy box.
- Saturn is slightly smaller, but still massive, around 960 Earths could live inside it.
- Uranus and Neptune are next in line, with about 58 Earths each.
So depending on which planet we're looking at, many or just a few Earths can squeeze inside!
If you had enough tiny balls, you could fill up the biggest planets like a giant puzzle.
Examples
- If you compare Earth to Mars, it's like comparing a tennis ball to a baseball.
- Imagine stacking multiple Earths to see how many would fit into Saturn.
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See also
- How Does Clearing the neighbourhood Work?
- How big is the Solar System?
- How Does Gravity on 8 Planets Comparison (3D Animation) Work?
- How Does Solar System 101 | National Geographic Work?
- How Does Orbit of the Planets in the Solar System Work?