The One Minute Geographer: This Fragile Earth (1) Size of the Earth

Jim Fonseca
2 min readFeb 1, 2022
Image from nineplanets.org

This is the first in a series of posts about the Amazing Fragility of Our Earth — Thus Fragile Earth for short.

Actually our earth is quite large compared to us tiny humans, and it initially looks like we are the fragile ones. So let’s look at the size of the earth first.

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Jim Fonseca

Geography professor (retired) writes The One Minute Geographer featuring This Fragile Earth. Top writer in Transportation and, in past months, Travel.