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This video is a drive through of a one-in-10-billion scale model of the solar system, with the planets 10 billion times smaller than the real planets and their orbital radii 10 billion times smaller than the actual orbital radii. On this scale, the sun is about 14 cm (5.5 inches) in diameter, the size of a child's soccer ball, Jupiter and Saturn are the size of marbles, Uranus and Neptune are the size of peppercorns, and the other planets are the sizes of a pencil dot on a paper, or smaller. The scaled planetary distances and orbital radii were taken from a table produced by the Lunar and Planetary Institute (http://www.lpi.usra.edu), and were used for a scale model in the National Mall in Washington, DC (http://voyagesolarsystem.org/). The distances (along 3100 N in North Logan, Utah) were stepped off by Aiden Edwards, 11, whose full stride (two steps) is about 1 meter. In this model, Pluto is 591 m (1940 ft) from the Sun. The drive through was done at about 10 miles per hour on average, took about 2.5 minutes, and illustrates how tiny the planets are compared with the vast distances between them. Participants include members of the Edwards and Jones families of North Logan, Utah.
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