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I'd like to knock up a solar system in a right scale and I wondered how can I do that. Now that I see this article I think I just can't, not in a regular room at least. I guess I will not have my solar system in an accurate scale hung on my ceiling. Too bad

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You can always look at the size dimension instead - you can relatively easily have the planets to scale next to each other (As long as you exclude the sun, of course).

Ever since I found out that the planets would fit neatly into the gap between the Earth and the Moon I've been toying with it as a tattoo idea

I wanted to respect the current distances, the sizes and the places of each planet to make it really real. Maybe like here https://theskylive.com/3dsolarsystem I was thinking of painting the planets myself

It helps that Pluto is no longer a planet but not much.

Uranus is 4.5 billion km from Sun and if, for the sake of simplicity, the model is 4.5m wide, that would mean that Earth with its diameter of ~13000km would be a speck just 0.013mm wide. That should be 1/10th of a single dot at a resolution of 200dpi if you are planning to print a map (one dot at 2000dpi but good luck printing that;). You might want to consider adding an arrow and a label.

I was thinking of something like that : https://donpedrobrooklyn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/oute...

But in a right scale. If the earth has a scale of 1/10th of a dot, that would be a bad decoration

You mean Neptune and Pluto's orbit is so eccentric that it is sometimes closer to the Sun than Neptune.

Good catch, thanks!

It's a fun thing for a walking/biking trail near you if you can get park permission though!

We have one scattered in our city:

https://theadventourist.com/solar-system-zagreb-croatia

There is another one in Hagen in Westfalen, Germany.

Allegedly the first. Sorry, didn't find any english link, but clicking on the 'Virtuelle Tour' there leads you to at least some maps where you can see how it is spread out through the city.

http://www.planetenmodell-hagen.de/

There is also the famous one starting in Stockholm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System

and one on a German island: http://www.sternwarte-norderney.de/planetenlehrpfad.html

Another one in Eau Claire, Wisconsin: https://www.visiteauclaire.com/listing/eau-claire-planet-wal...

I walked through the "Planetenweg" in Switzerland. It was so cool ! https://www.utokulm.ch/en/uetliberg/planet_trail

But I can't have that in my bedroom

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