The Sun is actually a star but since it is so close to the Earth it seems bigger than a star. If we lived in another star's solar system our star, the Sun, would be very small and look like a tittle. The Sun is the most known object in the solar system beyond the our Earth and our Moon. Everybody lives on Earth so it is the most known, then the Sun is the biggest so it is the second most known. The Sun is the largest object in the solar system. The sun is 864,000 miles in diameter. It looks so small compared to the moon because it is so far away from the Earth. For my project I am going to dress up to be the Sun and hold a bead to be the Earth to show size differences. If I were the size of the Sun the Earth would be the size of a the bead. In my resource book, Totality, there is a picture of the Sun 1 1/2 inches in diameter and the Earth is smaller than a tittle. In my project my height is 126.5 centimeters compared to the Sun. That makes the Earth 1.17 centimeters across in comparison. I found a necklace bead that was 1.17 centimeters across. My father showed how this math works using an idea called "part over total = part over total" to me.

What distance apart would Lucy (Sun) and bead (Earth) need to be?