Alfred's Serif Users' Forums — Sweden Solar System

Re: Sweden Solar System

null@example.com (William) — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 15:12:11 +0000

Alfred wrote:

William wrote:
Thank you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System
Perhaps you didn’t notice that the link in my original post takes you to that page.
I did not notice the link.
William wrote:
I wonder where a model of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to Earth apart from the Sun, would be located.
Well, it’s 4.34 light years away from Earth, or 4.106x10^13 km away, so at a scale of 1:20 million it would be 2.053 million kilometres away.

The model of the star several times further away than the real moon!

William

Re: Sweden Solar System

null@example.com (Alfred) — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 13:46:49 +0000

William wrote:

Thank you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System

Perhaps you didn’t notice that the link in my original post takes you to that page.

I wonder where a model of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to Earth apart from the Sun, would be located.

Well, it’s 4.34 light years away from Earth, or 4.106x10^13 km away, so at a scale of 1:20 million it would be 2.053 million kilometres away.

Re: Sweden Solar System

null@example.com (William) — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 13:15:22 +0000

Coiuld we work out one for the United Kingdom, using the Millennium Dome to represent the Sun?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Dome

William

Re: Sweden Solar System

null@example.com (William) — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 12:53:00 +0000

Thank you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System

I wonder where a model of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to Earth apart from the Sun, would be located.

William

Sweden Solar System

null@example.com (Alfred) — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 11:54:30 +0000

At 950 km across, the Sweden Solar System is the world's largest permanent scale model of the Solar System (scale 1:20 million).