If the sun was the size of a pea, how big would the earth be and what would be the distance between them?

Question

If the sun was the size of a pea, how big would the earth be and what would be the distance between them?

Answer 1

The Earth would be about as wide as a human hair, and it would be about 23 feet away from the Sun.

Answer 2

Hmmm. The sun is 865,000 miles in diameter. A pea is about .25 inches. That means that on this scale a mile is .000000000456 inches. Since the sun is 92.9 million miles away that means the earth is about .0423 inches away, a little less than a twentieth of an inch. The earth is about 7900 miles in diameter so its .0000036 inches in diameter, so small you'd need a good microscope to see it. On this scale Alpha Proxima, our sun's nearest neighbor, is 912 feet away.

Answer 3

Using the sun as a pea makes the planets really tiny, so here's my scale.

Make the sun an average orange.

Then the earth is a grain of sand 30ft away, Jupiter is a small pea 150 ft away, Pluto is a grain silt 400 yards away, and the nearest star is over 1000 miles away.

Does that help?