FACT: Pluto is 5900 million km from the Sun
Distance of Each Planet from Sun, as % of Distance Between Sun & Pluto
110 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0
% Distance (Nrst whole)
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CHALLENGE: What would this graph look like if you plotted the distances BETWEEN each planet, as %, instead?
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FACT: Pluto is 5900 million km from the Sun
RATIOS comparing the distances, from the Sun, of pairs of consecutive planets:Mercury : Venus Venus : Earth Earth : Mars Mars : Jupiter Jupiter : Saturn Saturn : Uranus 5:9 2:3 3:5 1:3 1:2 1:2
Uranus : Neptune
Neptune : Pluto
2:3
3:4
CHALLENGE: What would these ratios look like if you rewrote them as ONE multiple ratio comparison, instead?
FACT: Pluto is 5900 million km from the Sun
FRACTIONS comparing the distance between each consecutive planet and the distance between the Sun and Pluto:Sun to Mercury Mercury to Venus Venus to Earth Earth to Mars Mars to Jupiter Jupiter to Saturn Saturn to Uranus Uranus to Neptune Neptune to Pluto
1 100
1 120 1 140 1 60
1 12
1 8
1 4 1 4 1 4
CHALLENGE: What fraction would you need to subtract from these to exactly match the total distance, instead of being over?
FACT SHEET
Planet Distance From Sun (million km) 0 58 108 150 228 778 1427 2870 4497 5900 Distance From Sun (10 million km) 0 5.8 10.8 15 22.8 77.8 142.7 287 449.7 590 Diameter (km)
Sun Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto
1391950 4880 12100 12756 6794 143000 120500 51100 49500 2300