Relative Planet Sizes

In Contemporary Astronomy, Jay Pasachoff makes an interesting scale of the planetary orbits to a United States map. Some of the comparisons in the scale are:

• Sun: a ball of hot gas just over a kilometer in size in the center of New York
• Mercury: a 4 meter diameter ball at mid Long Island
• Venus: a 10 meter diameter ball one and a half times further
• Earth: Earth slightly bigger and passing over Trenton, New Jersey
• Mars: Mars about 5 meters in diameter just past Philadelphia
• Jupiter: About 100 meters in diameter at the Ohio line
• Saturn: A little smaller than Jupiter without its rings, past Cincinnati
• Uranus: About 30 meters across at the distance of Topeka
• Neptune: About 30 meters across at Santa Fe
• Pluto: About Los Angeles