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The Thousand Yard Model
written by Guy Ottewell
This lesson discusses the solar system, the relative sizes of the planets, and their relative separation in space.  This exercise is a useful for demonstrating  the size of the solar system.
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© 1989 Guy Ottewell
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Scale, Solar System Size, planets, separation in space
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This ia a Great Exercise

Author: John Baitinger
Posted: March 5, 2006 at 3:38PM
Source: The Astronomy Center collection

I made scale models instead of using the peppercorn, walnut, etc.  The WOW factor is worth the time.

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G. Ottewell, (1989), WWW Document, (https://web.archive.org/web/20210417021139/https://www.noao.edu/education/peppercorn/pcmain.html).
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