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  • chunes@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldThe Moon is an Alien Trojan Horse
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    11 days ago

    The volume of the sun is 1412000000000000000 km^3.

    The volume of the moon is 21958000000 km^3.

    sunvolume / moonvolume = ~6.4 million km^3.

    You could fit more than 6 million lunas inside the sun (well, if you joined their volumes into one giant sphere).

    So yeah, saying the moon is 1/400 the size of the sun is laughable.

    Now what I think they meant to say is diameter. It’s true: the moon’s diameter is 1/400 of the sun’s. And it’s also true that the moon is about 1/390th of the way to the sun. But they worded that poorly