Topic: Sweden Solar System

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

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FK1Ik0BXsAYrUTy?format=jpg&name=small

"Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?"
― Tennessee Williams

Re: Sweden Solar System

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

Re: Sweden Solar System

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

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.

"Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?"
― Tennessee Williams

Re: Sweden Solar System

Alfred wrote:

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