The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System

The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System
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Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
Total Pages : 56
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ISBN-10 : 9781615197781
ISBN-13 : 1615197788
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Book Synopsis The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System by : Mike Vago

Download or read book The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System written by Mike Vago and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)! 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 . . .


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