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Related: About this forumWorld’s largest scale model of the Solar System
Want to take a road trip through our solar system? Warm up your Volvo and point yourself toward Stockholm, where a 950-km scale model of the solar system begins. You can tour Sweden while getting a sense of our solar neighborhood's scale.
The Sweden Solar System runs from Stockholm to Kiruna up in the northern part of Sweden, a trip that Google Maps estimates takes 15 hours, even if you aren't stopping to gawk at all the models of celestial bodies along the way. At a 1:20 million scale, it's the largest scale model of the solar system, and it all starts at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, which is the world's largest spherical building. The rest of the solar system is represented by sculptures, with Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars all sitting in the Stockholm area, Jupiter in Sky City, and Pluto way up in Delsbo, with known asteroids, comets, and exoplanets along the way. It all ends with the termination shock, which sits, appropriately, at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna, where you can not only say you've mapped the fake solar system with your car, but also visit the observatory and lay your eyes on the real thing.
http://io9.com/5882220/worlds-largest-scale-model-of-the-solar-system-spans-the-length-of-sweden
The Sweden Solar System runs from Stockholm to Kiruna up in the northern part of Sweden, a trip that Google Maps estimates takes 15 hours, even if you aren't stopping to gawk at all the models of celestial bodies along the way. At a 1:20 million scale, it's the largest scale model of the solar system, and it all starts at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm, which is the world's largest spherical building. The rest of the solar system is represented by sculptures, with Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars all sitting in the Stockholm area, Jupiter in Sky City, and Pluto way up in Delsbo, with known asteroids, comets, and exoplanets along the way. It all ends with the termination shock, which sits, appropriately, at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in Kiruna, where you can not only say you've mapped the fake solar system with your car, but also visit the observatory and lay your eyes on the real thing.
http://io9.com/5882220/worlds-largest-scale-model-of-the-solar-system-spans-the-length-of-sweden
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World’s largest scale model of the Solar System (Original Post)
pokerfan
Feb 2012
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bluedigger
(17,087 posts)1. But I can see the real thing from here. n/t
DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)2. Yeah, I already have a more accurate model...
in actual size.
provis99
(13,062 posts)3. that's nothing.
I can see Russia from my porch.
TheEuclideanOne
(2,487 posts)4. Well, I can see Uranus from my bedroom
Sorry, couldn't resist. To be honest, I am not impressed in the least. When they decide to build one Full Scale, then I will be impressed.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)5. I've never been able to see it without a mirror
mckara
(1,708 posts)8. Did You Know?
The Razor's Edge is a Buddhist term for seeking Illumination through academic study, as Larry did in Somerset Maugham's book. Maugham never mentioned that.
jakeXT
(10,575 posts)6. "comets, and exoplanets" ?
Isn't an exoplanet outside of our system?
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)7. Yeah, that's a bit odd
At that scale the nearest star system would be over a million miles away (about 4 Earth-Moon distances).
James48
(4,441 posts)9. But..but...but...
WHERE IS PLUTO????
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)10. in Delsbo
according to the article.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delsbo
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