[quote="Mr. Milton Banana"]
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Glom
Earth is 7,500 miles in diameter, and Jupiter is 89,500 miles in diameter-large enough to hold 1300 Earths inside it. [-X :wink:
|
Only if they were squashed like Silly Putty. Maybe it's just me, but I was always annoyed by the statements "1300 Earths could fit inside Jupiter" or "1,300,000 Earths could fit inside Sun". Not if they were packed sphere to sphere like oranges in a crate, they would not! I know astronomers mean actual volume, but when laymen hear such things, 99.9% of them get the "packed spheres" image. In such case only about half as many Earths would fit.