Sunday, October 7, 2007

Planet Ratios and Colors

Mercury – Marble
Venus-Walnut
Earth-Golf ball
Mars-Acorn
Jupiter-Basketball
Saturn - Soccer ball
Uranus-Soft ball
Neptune - Small grapefruit
Pluto - Kidney bean

Scale Model
Sun – 36 inches yellow or orange
Mercury – 1/8 inch orange or grey
Venus – ¼ inch yellow
Earth – ¼ inch blue, green, brown
Mars – 1/8 inch red
Jupiter – 3 ½ inches yellow, brown, red and white
Saturn – 3 inches yellow
Uranus – 1 ¼ inches green
Neptune – 1 1/8 inch blue
Pluto – 1/16 inch yellow

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