DAILY NO. 6 · VERIFIED MEASUREMENTS
The five space objects from the Size It Up puzzle on September 6, 2026, with the measured size of each, the reference it was compared against, a source you can check, and how the community's guesses landed. Want the surprise first? Replay this puzzle — archived days never touch your streak.
Answer: a Space Shuttle orbiter measures 37.3 m (length / span), which is about 1.3× smaller than the reference, an Olympic swimming pool at 50 m.
The orbiter alone is about as long as a short-haul airliner — the launch stack was far taller.
Common miss: players tend to inflate a Space Shuttle orbiter when it sits beside an Olympic swimming pool — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: a Saturn V rocket measures 110.6 m (height), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, the Statue of Liberty at 93 m.
Saturn V stood taller than the Statue of Liberty without its pedestal.
Common miss: players tend to compress a Saturn V rocket when it sits beside the Statue of Liberty — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: Earth measures 12,742 km (length / span), which is 2.9× as big as the reference, Brazil at 4,320 km.
Earth is about 12,742 kilometres across.
Common miss: players tend to compress Earth when it sits beside Brazil — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Hubble Space Telescope measures 13.1 m (length / span), which is 1.2× as big as the reference, an American school bus at 10.7 m.
Hubble is roughly the size of a school bus, which is exactly what the Shuttle’s cargo bay was built to hold.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Hubble Space Telescope when it sits beside an American school bus — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
Answer: the Sun measures 1,392,700 km (length / span), which is 2142615385× as big as the reference, a French baguette at 65 cm.
The Sun is about 1.39 million kilometres in diameter.
Common miss: players tend to compress the Sun when it sits beside a French baguette — big things get squeezed, small familiar things get stretched.
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