ASK THE KIDS

Okay, ask the kids today.
"Today is the 28th and last day of February. How many months have 28 days?"

Oh, your kids are too old to fall for that. Ask them how old they would be on another planet. We measure a year as one Earth orbit. It takes the Earth exactly one year to orbit the Sun. Well, what if you lived on another planet? How many years old would you be then. Each planet takes a different amount of time to orbit the sun. I was excited to learn that I would only be 34 years old on Mars. Of course, I would be 105 on Venus. Here are a few rough calculations you can use to figure years on some other planets.
Mercury would be Earth years x 4.15
Venus would be Earth years x 1.62
Mars is Earth years x .53
Jupiter is Earth years x .08
Saturn is Earth years x .03

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