A118652 Diameters in miles of the planets in the solar system, starting with the closest to the sun.

3032, 7519, 7926, 4194, 88736, 74978, 32193, 30775, 1423

Offset: 1

Author

Cino Hilliard, May 17 2006

Keywords

• nonn
• fini
• full
• dumb
• less

Comments

If we plot these numbers, we get something close to a normal distribution. If we look at the graph more closely, it may be construed as two bell curves: (1) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars; (2) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.

There are many ways in which this sequence is unsatisfactory. The status of Pluto as a planet is now in doubt. The true values are unlikely to be integers. The use of miles rather than kilometers is deprecated. - N. J. A. Sloane, Sep 28 2006

Links

• Author?, The Planets

Programs

Mathematica

Planets = {"Mercury", "Venus", "Earth", "Mars", "Jupiter", "Saturn", "Uranus", "Neptune", "Pluto"}; Round[0.000621371*N[AstronomicalData[#, "Diameter"], 12] & /@ Planets] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Jun 23 2014 *)