Our solar system shown to scale

Paxton007 · Dec 22, 2010

Link Here

http://www.phrenopolis.com/perspective/solarsystem/sun.jpg

I think the site itself says it best:

This page shows a scale model of the solar system, shrunken down to the point where the Sun, normally more than eight hundred thousand miles across, is the size you see it here. The planets are shown in corresponding scale. Unlike most models, which are compressed for viewing convenience, the planets here are also shown at their true-to-scale average distances from the Sun. That makes this page rather large - on an ordinary 72 dpi monitor it's just over half a mile wide, making it possibly one of the largest pages on the web. This means you'll have to do a bit of scrolling if you want to find the planets, but don't despair. They are reasonably bright and labeled, so you can probably catch them flashing by in the blackness even if you are scrolling fairly fast.
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DavidGP · Dec 22, 2010

Well thats different and indeed the blurb in the quoted text got it rigth in that dont scroll too quick or the planets wizz past very quickly.

Spad · Dec 23, 2010

Very cool! Thanks for the link.

. . . and by golly, I STILL consider Pluto a planet, no matter what the egg-heads say!

silas · Dec 23, 2010

I didn't get to see that happen due to clouds in sky but pretty cool. I remember growing up and learning the planets. Then in HS we were told that they were making a moon if brain serves me right... A planet so I was like what the heck. And the silly thing is the schools ain't even going to buy new books to include it.

DavidGP · Dec 23, 2010

Spad said: ↑

. . . and by golly, I STILL consider Pluto a planet, no matter what the egg-heads say!
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Pluto's a dog silly!

Yeah while de-list it as a planet as its a planet in my eyes and always will be.

Silas said:

I didn't get to see that happen due to clouds in sky but pretty cool. I remember growing up and learning the planets. Then in HS we were told that they were making a moon if brain serves me right... A planet so I was like what the heck. And the silly thing is the schools ain't even going to buy new books to include it.
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Didnt get to see what..... the Sun burning its merry heart out, ok thats flippant of me and I guess you are meaning the Lunar Eclipse that happened this week, and yes I didnt see it too due to snow clouds in the sky, but the blood red moon as it has been in the past would have looked superb.

I do love the stars and spacetravel, did do a project for school on the planets and gained an A+ as I filled a whole text book with every planet and moon and data and hand drwan pics of them, I was only 12yrs at the time.

Schools are limited by funds sadly no matter what country you are in so they have to make do and I guess the techers will add addendum's to the catagories of planets.

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Our solar system shown to scale

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