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

"I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance, and therein lies my honour and my reward.”
— Kahlil Gibran

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.

"I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance, and therein lies my honour and my reward.”
— Kahlil Gibran

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