File:SolarSystem OrdersOfMagnitude Sun-Jupiter-Earth-Moon sequenced-loop.gif

English: This gif-loop shows four key Solar System objects: the Sun, Jupiter, Earth and the Moon. The first three are shown to have a relationship that are one order of magnitude step down in size, with Jupiter shown to have a diameter ten times smaller (0.10045×) than the diameter of the Sun, and the Earth eleven times smaller (10.9733×) than the diameter of Jupiter. This "eleven times" ratio is repeated in the very next step with the Moon when compared to three times the diameter of the Earth (11:3 ratio, with only 0.09% error). The next step resets this same Earth-Moon size ratio, with the Earth set at unity which gives three and two-thirds (3.6676×) Moon diameters. This cascade of size magnitudes is wrapped back to the beginning by overlaying the Sun back onto the Moon, as both bodies have a similar apparent size when viewed from the Earth. There is a total multiplication factor of 400 between the Sun and Moon (9.955 x 10.9733 x 3.6676 = 400.65). While the Moon is 400 times smaller, it is also 400 times closer than the Sun. So the loop goes through four steps of relative size magnitudes followed by a step connecting apparent size.