Michele McDougall

Weather Specialist Michele McDougall is the who. Find out about the what, when, where, and why about the environment and the weather.

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For all you Cliffy Clavens out there — here’s a USELESS (or not) piece of information for you.   Today’s factoid relates to the size of the Earth compared to our mighty Sun.   -a Sun that “finally” has us basking in warmth!!

The Earth is about 13 thousand kilometres wide.    The Sun is about 1.4 million kilometres across.

Size matters

Size matters

SO:  If the Sun was a hollow ball, you could fit about 1 MILLION Earths inside of it.                                 

           
WANT ANOTHER COOL…er, I mean WARM FACT??         
You could line up 100 Earths end-to-end to stretch across the face of the Sun.                
    
WANT TO TAKE A QUIZ TO SEE HOW “SUN SMART” YOU ARE ??    

No need to study…. 

http://www.cancer.ca/quizzes/quizmaker.html