Friday, April 18, 2008

Our Solar System - Fantastic!

JUPITER – SATURN – URANUS – NEPTUNE – EARTH – VENUS – MARS – MERCURY - PLUTO

Our solar system is truly an amazing ‘place’ with its nine planets. It is difficult to quickly relate the size of each planet in relation to the others. I found something fascinating which shows the relative size of each of the planets and also that of our sun – take a look, it is quite fantastic!

Pluto is the smallest being around 1.0% of the earths mass and is comprised of rock (70%) and ice (30%) with a surface temperature of -235 degrees Celsius. At the other extreme, Jupiter is the largest planet and one could fit around 1,317 earths into the same land mass. It is largely comprised of hydrogen with a rocky core. See: http://www.nineplanets.org/

It certainly puts things in perspective and I suppose if you were equally not familiar with the sizes and technical details of our range of acoustic cleaners, then again the following link would help solve this ‘perspective’ question.