Wonder of ScienceSolar system objects to scale.
Credit: Dr James O'Donoghue
Supertapani@wonderofscience I was fortunate enough to have lived in Boston, around year 2000, when there was a solar system scale model.
We cannot really picture how tiny the planets are in the vastness of space.
In that model, Sun at the center had a diameter of 3.5 meters.
Earth would be about the size of a soccer ball, 400 meters from the sun.
You'd have to drive 15km to see Pluto, which was about the size of a baseball.
Veronica Olsen@Supertapani @wonderofscience The University of Oslo used to have an Astro Festival each year. The campus is fairly long with a walkway in the middle, and they always had a line-up of planets to scale and with the correct distance, starting with the Sun at the physics building.