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LARGE >comparison< SCALE   |.|.|.|   Diameter

All values are in meters

• 5.64 × 10^-15 Electron
• 6.2 x 10^-11 Helium Atom
• 1 × 10^-10 Hydrogen atom
• 1.54 × 10^-10Carbon Atom
• 2.7 × 10^-10 Water molecule
• 2 × 10⁻⁸ Small virus
• 6.5 × 10⁻⁸ Hemoglobin molecule
• 1.2 × 10^-7 Influenza virus
• 1 × 10^-6 Latex nanoparticle
• 2 × 10^-6 Escherichia coli bacterium
• 7 × 10^-6 Red blood cell
• 1.5 × 10^-5 Pollen grain
• 7 × 10^-5 (70'000 nm) Human hair diameter
• 3 × 10^-4 (300'000 nm) Dust mite
• 0.0005 (500'000 nm) Grain of sand
• 0.001 Poppy seed
• 0.01 Coffee bean
• 0.012 Iris in the eye
• 0.043 Golf ball
• 0.045 Chicken egg
• 0.0525 Snooker ball
• 0.057 Standard pool ball
• 0.12 Compact disc
• 0.154 Target diameter for ISSF 50 meter rifle shooting competition
• ~0.2 Human head
• 0.22 Football (soccer ball)
• 0.24 Basketball
• 0.3 Vinyl LP (long play) disc
• 0.4572 (18")Basketball hoop (NBA)
• 0.46 Wheel diameter of the car (average)
• 0.6 Wheel diameter of the truck (average)
• 2 Weather balloon (aerostat for atmospheric research)
• 2.4 Hubble Space Telescope primary mirror
• 4 Caterpillar 777 mechanical drive dump truck tire
• 76 Montreal Biosphere (geodesic dome designed by Buckminster Fuller for the 1967 World's Fair in Canada)
• 157 Las Vegas Sphere (entertainment arena; opened 2023-09-29)
• 12'400 Deimos (Mars moon)
• 525'000 Vesta asteroid
• 3'474'800 Moon
• 4'879'400 Mercury
• 6'779'000 Mars
• 1.21 × 10⁷ Venus
• 1.27 × 10⁷ Earth
• 4.95 × 10⁷ Neptune
• 5.11 × 10⁷ Uranus
• 1.21 × 10⁸ Saturn
• 1.43 × 10⁸ Jupiter
• 1.39 × 10⁹ Sun
• 2.4 × 10⁹ Sirius star
• 1.1 × 10¹⁰ Pollux (giant star)
• 6.1 × 10¹⁰ Aldebaran
• 1.2 × 10¹¹Betelgeuse
• 2.1 × 10¹¹VY Canis Majoris
• 2.4 × 10¹¹UY Scuti (largest known star)
• ~9.461 x 10²⁰ (100'000 light-years) Milky Way Galaxy
• 2.08 × 10²¹ (220'000 light-years) Andromeda Galaxy
• 8.8 × 10²⁶ (93 billion light-years) Observable Universe diameter

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