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Vernerator t1_jd8lu1y wrote

If I did the math correctly, with your Earth equals a tennis ball. Earth equals about 7900 miles dia. A tennis ball equals about 2.5 inches. Proxima Centauri is 2.53xE13 miles away.

With the conversions, another tennis ball would have to be placed 126,363 miles away from the first.

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00Askingquestions00 OP t1_jd8vj7k wrote

Ok. I appreciate the math. It's just to unimaginable to grasp the size. And that's the closest star.

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Anonymous-USA t1_jd8rajw wrote

Since the Earth is “only” ~24K mi in circumference, you’d wrap around the equator over 5x. So it may be best to shrink that Earth from a tennis ball to a pea. Then ur only wrapping around once 😉

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