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Gigameter's Room - looking at a sheet of graph paper
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| galaxy | | 21 |
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19 |
| local stars | 18 |
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| | 17
16 |
| between | 15 |
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13 |
| E's orbit | 12 |
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| | 11
10 |
| sun | 9 |
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| | 8
7 |
| texas | 6 |
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4 |
| hood | 3 |
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1 |
| you | 0 |
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-2 |
| salt grain | -3 |
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| | -4
-5 |
| bacteria | -6 |
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| | -7
-8 |
| atom | -9 |
109 m 
1 Gm
1010 m 10 Gm
1011 m 100 Gm
 Sun |
Sirius A
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light-minutes (lt·min)
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0
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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unscaled version - so you can read the
annotations [orbit circularity is bogus]
What is the distance from Earth to the sun? 150 Gm (150 billion meters)
Mercury's orbit
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