Solar System

[druiaghtagh]

I want to find a source that could show realationships between the sun and panets if a scale model of the system was built, i.e. if the model sun was the size of an orange say

[xyzzy@bok]

job done druiaghtagh; http://fuse.pha.jhu.edu/~wpb/scale.html is this what you want? what i would like to know, is the origin or meaning of your user id please :-)

[druiaghtagh]

xyzzy My Mothers family were all Irish and Druiaghtagh is the Gaelic word for Wizard... i thought that there were enough Merlins and Gandalfs about !!

[mikewith]

There's an exhibition showing the solar system at the Future's Museum in Sweden, including Earth, the planets and a 105 metre high model of the sun. The exhibition also features a scale model showing where our nearest neighbouring star, Proxima Centauri is. It's in the Planetarium in... Melbourne, Australia.

LeMarchand wrote: "Try here: http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/ . Due to the vast disatances involved, I think you'll find that you may have to use two different scales - one for the size of the planets/sun and one for the orbits if you want to keep things workable." - AB Editor.