Heart Healthy Solar System

[Mercy Now]

In looking for ways to describe or explain the solar system to children using household objects I came across this:

If the sun were a pumpkin about a foot wide,

Mercury would be a tomato seed 50 feet away;

Venus, a pea 75 feet away;

Earth, a pea 100 feet away;

Mars, a little raisin 175 feet away;

Jupiter, an apple 550 feet away;

Saturn, a peach 1,025 feet away;

Uranus, a plum 2,050 feet away;

and Neptune, a plum 3,225 feet away.

Pluto stays in the fridge.
Poor Pluto.


However, according to scientists, there would be one adjustment using the above calculations and edibles.

The pumpkin(sun) should be 3 foot wide.
:)

[artificialflavors]

MN.. i've always loved to-scale miniatures of the solarsystem. this one's great

[Mercy Now]

Me too artificial flavors . Glad you enjoyed it. :)

Keep in mind the distances with this model.

[Mercy Now]

[user=61]Mercy Now[/user] wrote:

Keep in mind the distances with this model.

And that ,naturally, every force weakens with distance.