The Planets Are Very Very Very Far Away A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System
by [Vago, Mike]
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Description
Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!
It's not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a place mat, or a lunch box, or into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything--and so this is no ordinary book. Seven double-gatefold pages open out not once but twice, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale.
At a 100,000,000,000-to-1 scale, the Sun is about the size of a dime. And five feet away from the Sun, we find . . . Earth, the size of a pinhead. A hundred-billion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or onto a soccer field)! How small do we need to go? Unfold the next three spreads to find out . . .
Product Details
- The Experiment Brand
- Oct 18, 2022 Pub Date:
- 9781615197774 ISBN-13:
- 161519777X ISBN-10:
- 54.0 pages Hardcover
- English Language
- 6.4 in * 0.4 in * 10.3 in Dimensions:
- 2 lb Weight:
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