Starkler
12-02-2005, 12:41 PM
Build a solar system (http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/)
This is an interesting exercise to visualise the true scale of space and the solar system.
Plug in the size you want your model Sun to be , and it calculates the size and distances of the planets to the scale you specify.
It also tells you the scale distances to a few stars, the speed of light in your scale and a few other intersting things. eg my Sun was a 100mm ball, so Betelgeuse was 37.5 metres in diameter !
:eyepop:
This is an interesting exercise to visualise the true scale of space and the solar system.
Plug in the size you want your model Sun to be , and it calculates the size and distances of the planets to the scale you specify.
It also tells you the scale distances to a few stars, the speed of light in your scale and a few other intersting things. eg my Sun was a 100mm ball, so Betelgeuse was 37.5 metres in diameter !
:eyepop: