Monday, January 24, 2011

Budget

If you had a $100.00 and each dollar represented 1 unit of mass, how much would the sun cost?

I think it would cost about $60.00 and $40.00 would be allocated to the other planets as follows:

Mercury-1.00
Venus-6.00
Earth-7.00
Mars-2.00
Jupiter-13.00
Saturn-7.00
Uranus-3.00
Neptune-1.00

I learned I was wrong! The sun actually would be worth $99.85. I was also wrong on my guesses on the sizes of the other planets (except I got knew Jupiter and Saturn were the biggest so all is not lost..:) The actual monetary worth of the planets are as follows:

Mercury-.00002 cents -smallest planet, but closest to sun
Venus-.0003 cents-about same size as earth-also brightest planet
Earth-.0003 cents
Mars-.00004 cents-Highly varied and interesting terrain, "Red Planet"
Jupiter-10.6 cents-largest planet- Gas planet-90% hydrogenSaturn- 3.2 cents-has rings composed of particles
Uranus-.006 cents-Gas planet. Bluish color, also has rings but are harder to see than Saturn.
Neptune-.005 cents-Gas planet, also bluish color and also has rings but are harder to see than Saturn.

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