Monday May 21 2012
Planets and Pennies

Try this easy way to visualize how gravity differs from planet to planet.


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not really

I don't think it's that much.I mean think about it.It would weigh the amount of Pluto's pennies in dollar bills.Yet it's still the same amount of money.That's how,in my perspective,it works.And I know other people have different ways of comparing and estimating.B ut that's how I estimate.

lots

lots of pennis

not really

when you think about it,it isn't that much

Did you...

Did you really count all the pennies?
Jasmin

Yes, I did. Every one of

Yes, I did. Every one of them.

that much

how long did it take

Science is way cool!!!

Science is way cool!!!

cool

cool nice vid but the picture siad it was the haunted pumpkin

Fixed! Thanks for letting me

Fixed! Thanks for letting me know.

cooooooool

cooooooool

jj47

the sun is going to destroy us when it becomes a red giant or a runaway black hole will suck us up

so cool!!! but how do you

so cool!!! but how do you know that thats how it would feel like on the sun???

Cåth®yne

Great questions!

We can measure the gravitational pull of the Sun from here, and use that to calculate what the pull of gravity would be at the surface of the Sun.

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