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Units
If the Earth were the Size of Pea
Space Travel
Distance
Mass
100
This is the fastest known thing and travels at 300,000,000 m/s.
What is light?
100
Jupiter would be this far away.
What is 1000 ft.
100
This is the the fastest pair of spaceships man has created.
What is Voyager 1 and 2?
100
This is the planet that passed the face of the sun to determine the distance to the sun.
What is Venus?
100
This man wrote a book that had the law of gravitation in it.
What is Newton?
200
This is the name of the distance from the earth to the sun.
What is an astronomical unit?
200
Pluto would be this far away.
What is 1.5 miles?
200
This is how fast the fastest spaceships can travel.
What is 35,000 miles per hour?
200
This is the man who wanted to find out why the earth's orbit was not a perfect circle.
Who is Edmund Halley?
200
This is the man who first determined he wanted to find the mass of the earth.
What is Nevil Maskylene?
300
This is the numerical distance from the earth to the sun in miles.
What is 93 million.
300
This is how far the closest star other than the sun would be.
What is 10,000 miles?
300
This is why the fastest spaceships were launched when they were.
What is the four biggest planets were lined up?
300
This is the man who first determined a degree of meridian.
What is Richard Norwood?
300
This man was tasked with finding a mountain that had a consistent volume.
What is Charles Mason?
400
This is the speed of light in miles per hour.
What is 670,616,629 miles per hour?
400
This is how long it would take to get to Uranus if we were traveling the speed of light.
What is 9 hours?
400
When were the two fastest spaceships launched.
What is 1977?
400
This is the team that went to the Andes to confirm a degree of meridian and failed miserably.
What is Bouger and la Condamine?
400
This man came up with some piece of making contour lines.
What is Charles Hutton?
500
This is what we call how far light travels in a year.
What is a light year?
500
If we traveled the speed of light for 10,000 years we would get to this.
What is the edge of our solar system?
500
These are the months the fastest spaceships were launched.
What is August and September?
500
This is the man who came up with the math behind finding the radius of the earth.
What is Isaac Newton?
500
This man was crazy and found a very accurate mass of the earth.
What is Henry Cavendish?