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10/19/2007 12:09 PM
    mark m if we can put 109 earths across the sun at the equator, how many fit all the way around?

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    10/19/2007 1:14 PM

    Hi Mark,

    The diameter of the Sun is about 109 times the diameter of the Earth. The circumference of a sphere at its equator is pi x the diameter. The value of pi is about 3.14159, so if we multiply pi x 109 Earth diameters, we see that it would take about 342 Earths to go all the way around the Sun at its equator.

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