What if all of the world's land and water was transported to the mid-point of the solar system?
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In the same way that if you were to push all of the earth's water together into a massive sphere, it would become roughly half the size of the moon. What if you pushed all the land and all the water together, excluding all the atmosphere, and placed that at the point in the solar system where the mass of all solar objects on one side balances with the mass of all the solar objects on the other side?<br><br>That would be the center of mass of the entire solar system. The center of mass for the earth is roughly 6,371 kilometers from the center of the ocean - roughly 6,371 kilometers from the center of the earth. And the center of mass for the entire solar system is roughly 326,500 kilometers from the center of the earth - roughly 328,500 kilometers from the center of the sun, because Jupiter is so massive.<br><br>If we were to place the combined land and water of earth at that point, what would it, physically and visually speaking, look like?
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