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· Föderation EN Do 27.02.2025 10:44:19 @wonderofscience I was fortunate enough to have lived in Boston, around year 2000, when there was a solar system scale model. We cannot really picture how tiny the planets are in the vastness of space. In that model, Sun at the center had a diameter of 3.5 meters. Earth would be about the size of a soccer ball, 400 meters from the sun. You'd have to drive 15km to see Pluto, which was about the size of a baseball. |
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Föderation EN Do 27.02.2025 11:27:56 @Supertapani @wonderofscience The University of Oslo used to have an Astro Festival each year. The campus is fairly long with a walkway in the middle, and they always had a line-up of planets to scale and with the correct distance, starting with the Sun at the physics building. |
