Thread: Calculating the distance between a "5 cent coin sized" sun to Proxima Centauri
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Old 10-12-2011, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by shelltree View Post
1,391,980 km = width of sun

Width of sun in millimetres = 13919800000000mm
Shelley,

Here is your error. One too many zeros for the Sun in mms.
Should read 1 391 980 000 000mm.

This will increase your calculated distance by a factor of 10 to roughly 558km, which is in pretty good agreement with Steven's result.

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