All the planets, except mercury, if they were as close as the moon to earth

Nov 6, 2021 5:23 PM

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Jupiter freaks me the heck out

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Always with the side-eye, Jupiter.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wait ! Why not Pluto! Just for old times sake!

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We would have massive earthquakes and volcano eruptions all the time. And tidalwaves covering half the continents.

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Fun fact, uranium was named after the planet Uranus.

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and Earth v

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Poor Pluto !

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Poor Mercury. It's actually a full planet and still got erased.

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why the hell does this need commentary

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm honestly surprised how small Jupiter was. Jupiter is SO much larger than Earth, I figured it would fill the entire sky

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What about the sun?

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You'd be inside the sun.

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The earth would be within Saturns rings

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How big would Earth look if it was 250,000 miles away??

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Similar to Venus

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Thank you ?

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I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Uranus. That's King George.

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I was waiting for "your mom" até the end

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Is this measured from the axis, or just the average distance of the moon (surface yo surface) in a lunar cycle?

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

VIVA LE PLUTO FUCK YOU

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Wow the moons a little bitch

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That would be so cool@if Saturn were that close

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Was expecting Uranus to look a little more, I dunno, puckery, I guess.

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And all those planets can fit between earth n moon

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Hmm, so you could walk to the moon across the planets!

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That was more interesting to know than the gif. Thanks.

4 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Yes, but only very briefly.

4 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

That can't be right. Jupiter would be waaaay bigger, I'd think.

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Jupiter has a radius of 43,441miles. The moon, on average is about 238,900 miles away from earth.

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? Thank you. I'm pretty useless on the weekend. In my defense, I do bust my ass at work. ?

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No, it would be about the size of a basketball at arms length. Big, but hardly sky filling. Jupiter is big, but the moon is a long way away.

4 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Well, there that is then. ☺

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Jupiter and Saturn would scare me for the few seconds I would be alive

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I hear you JoJo's Season 2 theme song.

4 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

Uranus is quite large, OP

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I prefer the orginal name of George

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Large enough to envelope earth if it were close as the moon?

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You could fit every planet in the solar system between the earth and the moon.

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v

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I saw what you did there

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Name checks out

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:)

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They don't call Uranus a gas giant for nothing!

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I'm sorry but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all. It's called Urectum now.

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Oh that is a good one!

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Uranus Is!

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me, for nearly all of these:

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Wouldn’t the gravity be thrown off if jupiter was that close?

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Yes, but everything would be different with anything but the moon there

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Good thing this is just hypothetical

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We'd be fried due to the radiation Jupiter emits too

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We’d be fucked

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Tides would be a little different!

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Well, I'm not an astronomer... so I'll stay out of it.

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Ah yes, to be in the loving embrace of Jupiter as it slowly spins us through the endless void of the cosmos, what a dream it would be indeed

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Tidal forces would be horrific setting off all volcanoes turning the Earth into something akin Io, I think.

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I checked before posting. We would be outside Jupiter's roche limit. Earth would be a mess, but not literally torn apart, I think.

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Huh. It looks like Jupiter's density is too low to do so. I didn't even know density played a factor, but it makes sense. Neat, thanks!

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We'd be fucked if *any* of the other planets were that close. Tides, orbit, you name it -- all affected by gravity.

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We would probably be orbiting it like a moon.

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More likely Earth would be torn apart before getting anywhere near that close, and bits of us would be raining into Jupiter.

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Ooo but you probably mean tidally, my bad, what an interesting thought!

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I was just thinking we'd be the moon once something bigger was nearby.

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And be fried with radiation

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Probably wouldn't be a stable orbit. Jupiter's largest moon (Ganymede) is about 1/3 the diameter of Earth, and its orbit is 3 times the 1/2

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distance as our moon is from Earth. If the mass of the Earth was 3 times closer to Jupiter as Ganymede, I think we'd be quickly drawn in.2/2

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Basically the world from Avatar movie type scenario

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You would be about 9% lighter if you were on the side of the earth closest to Jupiter and about 8% heavier on the other side.

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Same thing will happen with time

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I'm not fat, Jupiter's close by right now, that's all

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More like "I'm not fat, just can't see Jupiter"

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So does this happen with the moon and sun too? Just insignificant? I know about tides, just never thought about weight.

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It sure does! In the case of the moon, it causes your weight to vary by about a thousandth of one percent.

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Felt a little fatter this morning

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Would that mean the earth would be tidally locked?

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I don't know how long it would take, but I think that would almost certainly be the outcome.

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I’m going to accept your math and just add….

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Yep, I'm a nerd and proud of it!

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If jupiter was that close, we'd be orbiting it

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Only if we were moving fast enough.

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And we would die either by radiation or by the earthquakes Jove causes by kneading the Earth like playdough.

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Turns out the Jovians aren't very jovial.

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Mercury: WTF?

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Mercury: the forgotten planet

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Pluto: I’ll be over here if you need me.

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But Mercury didn’t forget…and Mercury would make them remember

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It’s close enough in size to the moon to make the comparison pretty invisible. 4,879 km (3031.67 mi) vs 3,474 km (2158.64 mi).

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Those several hundred miles sound like a lot, percentage wise, but visually it’s really not a huge difference at that perceived size…

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…in the sky.

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Mercury nervous after what they did to Pluto.

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Its been 15 years... at some point you all are going to have to accept that things you learned in Science class... is often wrong.

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Wait till you find out about not having "taste zones" on your tongue, that Rosa Parks was actively protesting looking for a fight, and more

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To be fair, Mercury is about the same size as the Moon. It would be a wasted view.

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You’re right. I for one am thankful for saving me 3 seconds while browsing imgur. :-)

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How did Mercury even get spotted or named a planet?

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Mercury can be seen with the naked eye just after dusk/ before sunrise. The ancients knew it was a moving object like the other planets.

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