Fact #037
Strange but true
Every planet in the solar system would fit in the gap between Earth and the Moon, side by side, with room left over.
Add up the equatorial diameters of Mercury through Neptune and you get roughly 380,000 km against an average Earth-Moon distance of 384,400 km. It's a party trick with a real point: the Moon is much farther away than almost every diagram of it suggests.
Source: NASA planetary fact sheets (opens in a new tab) · checked Aug 2026