May 12, 2022 at 1:54 am

Guy Uses a Basketball and Tennis Ball to Visualize the Size of the Moon and Its Distance to the Earth

by Matthew Gilligan

A man named Alex Worden who has more than 133,000 followers on TikTok shared two videos on the platform to help people visualize the size and the distance of the moon to the Earth using a basketball and a tennis ball.

In the same video, he also compared the size of the U.S. to the moon.

Take a look.

@alexworden_

Romanticizing the moon 🌙 #didyouknow #space #moon #earth #solarsystem #month #funfacts #science #dateideas #information

♬ original sound – Alex Worden

He added another post where he showed viewers the relative size of the sun compared to the Earth and the moon.

These numbers might blow your mind. Take a look.

@alexworden_

Small Earth. Small Sun? #didyouknow #space #solarsystem #earth #sun #scale #funfacts #moon #basketball

♬ original sound – Alex Worden

Follow Worden on TikTok to see more of his interesting videos.

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