Scale Model Of The Solar System

Tammy Said:

scale model of the sun and solar system?

We Answered:

Many scale models - just scale down some more by dividing by 10, 20 or whatever number makes the size convenient.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_syste…
http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/so…
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Nathan Said:

orreries are generally not to scale. Is there anywhere an actual scale model of the solar system in motion?

We Answered:

Here is the largest scale model of the Solar System, complete with driving directions between the sun and planets.

http://www.bradley.edu/las/phy/astronomy…

Jeffrey Said:

Scale model of solar system?

We Answered:

Mercury. . 20 cm
Venus. . . . 35 cm
Earth. . . . 50 cm
Mars. . . . . 80 cm
Asteroids 1.40 m
Jupiter. . 2.60 m
Saturn. . . 5.00 m
Uranus. . . 9.80 m
Neptune. 19.40 m
Pluto. . . . 38.60 m

Travis Said:

Scale model of the Solar System on an A3 sheet of paper?

We Answered:

Let's say you fit the Sun into the width of the page (297 mm). Your scale is then 1,392,000/297 km per mm, which is 4687 km/mm. As a round number, you could use 5,000 km/mm. Mercury (4,878 km diameter) is therefore going to be about 1 mm in diameter - pretty small.
Alternatively, you could change your scale by a factor of 5, to 1,000 km/mm and only show part of the Sun on the A3 sheet. At least the planets would then appear reasonably large.

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