Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Solar System Budget

If you had $100.00 you could use between all the mass in our solar system, how would you divvy it up? I would say That because the sun is pretty important I would give that half of my budget, so $50.00. For the remaining portion of my budget  I would start by taking out $10.00 and dedicating $5.00 to comets, asteroids, meteors, and dust particles, and the other $5.00 to the minor planets. So now spending $10.00 on that and $50.00 on the sun, I have $40.00 left. I would separate the rest of this into the planets. I would give Jupiter $10.00 because it is the biggest planet. Then comes Saturn (next biggest planet) I would give that $9.00. I now have $21.00 left. I'd give Neptune $7.00 which leaves me with $14.00. I have to divide this with the planets that are left, the rocky planets, since we already covered the gas giants. I would give Earth $5.00, Venus $4.00, Mars $3.00 and Mercury $2.00. That would take up the rest of my budget.

After looking where these were actually ranked I was wayyyy off. The sun actually takes up 99.85% of mass, or $99.85 out of our $100.00 budget. For the rest of the plants, starting with the gas giants, Jupiter takes up 10.6% mass or 10.6 cents, Saturn takes up 3.2 cents, Neptune takes up .0006 cents, and Uranus takes up .005 cents. For the rocky planets, Earth and Venus take up .0003 cents, Mars takes up .00004 cents and Mercury takes up .00002 cents of our budget.

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