Some new ways of looking at the solar system

Four new ways of drawing the solar system are presented and discussed. In the first diagram, Sun-planet barycentres are plotted on the radius of the Sun. Only the centre of the Sun–Jupiter barycentre lies outside of the Sun. A second diagram shows the relative sizes of the planets plotted concentrically revealing a pairing of the planets: Mercury–Mars, Earth–Venus, Uranus–Neptune, Jupiter–Saturn. A third diagram shows the relative positions of the planets on the gravitational potential (GP) well of the Sun. A fourth diagram shows a plot of the relative depth of the GP wells of the planets. All the diagrams are available as supplementary material.