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Mars to be closer to Earth then in 60,000 years [message #35551] Fri, 01 August 2003 21:48 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
boma57 is currently offline  boma57
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That would be a nice model...if it was to scale. Unfortunately, it's not.

Earth is 93 million miles from the sun.
The moon is 240,250 miles from Earth.
Mars is 140 million miles from the sun.
Earth will be 34 million miles from Mars.

Hmm...Since I don't have the GMax file, I measured with a ruler.

Your moon is 3 centimeters away from your earth, and your Mars is 6 and a half centimeters away from your Earth.

Lets look at these scales...

3 : 240,250
6.5 : 34,000,000

Do some proportionate math, and you'd find that if your model was life size, your Mars would only be 520,541 miles from the Earth. You're 33,479,459 miles off.
 
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