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Physical Environment > Solar System Model |
This site tells the story of the history of the universe. Click Earlier and Later to follow the story. Note: Many facts have been simplified to make them easier to understand. |
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It might help to get some idea of the scale of the solar system if you make a model of it. Use a football as the Sun, and find or make objects the sizes shown in this diagram of the planets. For the asteroids and the comets you can use grains of sand.
Place your planets at the distances given in this table to make your scale model.
You might like to know that in your model 1m represents 5.6 billion meters in the solar system. |
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