Submitted by 00Askingquestions00 t3_11yoayl in space
reddit455 t1_jd8kodw wrote
>But scaling it down and using a tennis ball or a marble to represent either earth or the solar system could it be possible?
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it is not possible to print a picture of the solar system to scale.
either the distances are too big, or the planets are too small.
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On a dry lakebed in Nevada, a group of friends build the first scale model of the solar system with complete planetary orbits: a true illustration of our place in the universe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System
The Sweden Solar System is the world's largest permanent scale model of the Solar System.
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Cycle the Solar System
https://www.york.ac.uk/physics-engineering-technology/outreach/astrocampus/cycle-solar-system/
The York Solar System model is a scale model of the Solar System, spread out along 6.4 miles (10km) of the old East Coast mainline railway. Along it you can find scale models of all the planets in our solar system as well as models of the Cassini and Voyager spacecraft.
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