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Old 11-23-2012, 12:18 PM   #1689
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Former Planet Pluto and Charon is the highest resolution photo to date:



http://www.popsci.com/science/articl...ail-yet?cmp=tw
As described in Bill Bryson's most excellent book "A short history of nearly everything":

"Where Earth is the size of a pea, and the solar system were drawn to scale, Jupiter would be a thousand feet from a pea-sized Earth and Pluto would be a mile and a half. You wouldn't be able to see Pluto because it would be about the size of a bacterium. Scale matters."
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