File:SolarSystemSizes.PNG

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file(610 × 610 pixels, file size: 29 KB, MIME type: image/png)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary[edit]

Description
English: Log-log plot (red-dots) of solar-system object diameters versus "distance from the sun". The diameter of natural satellites (moons) associated with these objects are plotted (as blue-triangles) below them. The plot only includes a few comets (magenta diagonals), which often have unknown diameters and orbits that are highly eccentric (and sometimes well out of the ecliptic).

The plot uses standard planetary symbols, except that C refers to dwarf-planet Ceres while dwarf-planets Haumea, Makemake, Eris and trans-Neptunian object Sedna (far right) are only shown by red dots. Minor planets including the next smaller asteroids Vesta, Pallas and Hygiea are shown as grey dots instead.

Horizontal green, yellow and magenta lines mark the perihelion and aphelion of each object. Yellow lines (for scale) also mark the diameter (hence twice the radius) of the sun along both axes. As you can see, object diameters are generally smaller than that of the sun, while object orbits are generally much larger than the diameter of the sun.
Date
Source Own work
Author P. Fraundorf

Licensing[edit]

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current13:02, 9 March 2016Thumbnail for version as of 13:02, 9 March 2016610 × 610 (29 KB)Unitsphere (talk | contribs)Added eccentricity information for 2012VP113.
17:26, 8 March 2016Thumbnail for version as of 17:26, 8 March 2016608 × 612 (29 KB)Unitsphere (talk | contribs)Add horizontal lines to show perihelion and aphelion radii, and also correct labels for Neptune and Uranus.
16:37, 3 March 2016Thumbnail for version as of 16:37, 3 March 2016503 × 513 (17 KB)Unitsphere (talk | contribs)Add a couple of trans-Neptunian objects as well.
15:26, 3 March 2016Thumbnail for version as of 15:26, 3 March 2016510 × 516 (18 KB)Unitsphere (talk | contribs)Plot now covers almost 10 orders of magnitude in size (from 12 miles across to 668 AU), and includes a few comets.
15:24, 2 March 2016Thumbnail for version as of 15:24, 2 March 2016370 × 375 (11 KB)Unitsphere (talk | contribs)User created page with UploadWizard

There are no pages that use this file.

Metadata