Are there any true-scale models of the solar system?

Subject: Are there any true-scale models of the solar system?

Date: Thu Nov 4 02:24:40 1999
Posted by John Davison
Grade level: grad (science) School: No school entered.
City: Cate Town State/Province: No state entered. Country: South Africa
Area of science: Astronomy
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By this I mean models in which the size of the planets is on the same scale as the distance between them.  My own calculations (which I THINK are correct) indicate that if the (scale) Earth is 1cm in diameter then the Sun will be a 109cm ball 117m away and Pluto will be 2.4mm diameter 4.6km from the Sun.  Are my calculations correct and is there such a model anywhere?

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