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Cartoon Dog Excitement

There’s a lot of excitement over New Horizons and its little jaunt out to Pluto, which apparently looks a bit like this:

New Horizons' view of Pluto

Pluto

New Horizons’ view of Pluto

To help fit this into perspective there is a nice image been produced showing things which are definitely not planets to scale:

Solar System objects which are not planets, to scale

To Scale Not Planets

Solar System objects which are not planets, to scale

In a similar vein here are the eight planets to scale:

The eight planets to scale

Planets to Scale

The eight planets to scale

But the two images aren’t the same scale. For that you need this one:

Spherical objects in the solar system, drawn to scale

Solar System to Scale

Spherical objects in the solar system, drawn to scale

Anyway, looking forward to more close up views of little old Pluto, which should be unveiled later this evening 🙂

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