The dimensions of the solar system.

From: Science Scope | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

We have added a few new wrinkles to the popular activity of building a scale model of the solar system. The new activity takes advantage of some of the special features of Google Earth. Our goal was to create an activity that would give a much more powerful sense of the enormity and emptiness of the solar system and, at the same time, provide an opportunity to make connections with the community.

Traditional models

Historically, solar-system models are built by choosing objects of the appropriate relative sizes as the Sun and planets, and then laying them out along a line ...

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