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I love this sort of thing. It becomes unfathomable how big those things really are.

I guess I really never knew how relatively small Mars was compared to the Earth...I thought they were closer together, size wise.

In a little college town near here, they have a scale representation how far the planets are from the sun. Earth is an easy walk from the sun, pluto, not so much.

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I wish they'd thought to include Luna.

I heard that they have found other planets with moons, and in fact there's even an asteroid in the asteroid belt with a moon.

The thing that is still odd/unique about Earth's moon is the ratio in size to the planet. Earth has things like tides and volcanoes because of the gravitational effect of such a massive body so near by constantly tugging on us.

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