A Sense of Proportion: Neptune is about 50,000 km in diameter, and its largest moon, Triton, is about 2700 km in diameter. If you represent the planet with a ball 10 inches in diameter, how big a ball will you need to represent Triton?

A Sense of Proportion: Neptune is about 50,000 km in diameter, and its largest moon, Triton, is about 2700 km in diameter. If you represent the planet with a ball 10 inches in diameter, how big a ball will you need to represent Triton?

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Chapter23: Uranus, Neptune, And The Kuiper Belt

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