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The problem with ploting the actual size of asteroids (and planets too for the most part) is that you'd just end up with a black screen even with subpixel rende

• ben_w 2y ago
  Indeed, even the largest is literally an invisible dot on an invisible dot — a while back I was playing around and made a video of the actual scale of various megastructures with Earth and the sun for scale, starting with a Halo ring next to Earth, zooming out until it was a dot revealed it was in the middle of a Banks Orbital, zooming out further until that was nearly invisible revealed it was next to a Niven Ringworld, and the zoom continued until you could see the sun. Ceres is the biggest asteroid, is less than 1/10th the diameter of Earth, and orbits the sun between 2.55 and 2.98 times Earth's orbit. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JvKSRKT0nzM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JvKSRKT0nzM