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English: Comparison of sizes of lengths with order of magnitude 1e14m: light month shell (largest yellow sphere with Comet 1910 A1's orbit passing through top left); Hyakutake's orbit (long orange extreme ellipse); light week shell (inner yellow sphere with yellow Vernal point arrow as radius); and Sedna's orbit (yellow ellipse inside the light week shell). Shorter 1e13 m distances are: comet Hale Bopp's orbit (faint small orange ellipse below); and one light-day (smallest yellow spherical shell). All to scale. No transparency version.
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derived from Paul Stansifer's POV-Ray source files (see below), by me, 84user, using w:en:POV-Ray, and w:en:IrfanView.

84user's contribution (inside POV-Ray files: adjusting coordinates, changing light source and other parameters) is public domain and source files used are described at User:84user/Size comparison.

Physical information is based on the Wikipedia articles and elsewhere (see POVRay source files) about the respective lengths.

Paul Stansifer's contributions to this image (POV-Ray code) are available under the GPL, v. 2, and other licenses. See User:Paul Stansifer/Size comparison for more details and the other licenses.
Author Paul Stansifer, and User:84user (see "source")

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Zoomed in to show shorter 1e13m lengths: the one light day yellow shell; the heliosphere's termination shock (blue shell); and other arrows show positions of Voyager 1 (red) and Pioneer 10 (green)
Zoomed out to show longer 1e15m lengths: one light year yellow shell; Comet 1910 A1's orbit; light month shell
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current20:29, 10 December 2008Thumbnail for version as of 20:29, 10 December 20081,024 × 768 (132 KB)84user (talk | contribs)add Comet 1910 A1's orbit
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