World's First Real Scale Solar System Model(Scratch)

Publicado 2024-04-22
This is a size/distance combined scale model of the solar system with just the sun and planets (the first Scratch one in the world) with a scale of approximately 1: 47,000,000,000. Everything is on the same scale.
1 pixel (Earth) = 0.27 millimeters
1 Astronomical Unit (AU)* ≈ 12,000 pixels ≈ 10.6 feet
1. Diameter of Sun ≈ 128 pixels (3.5 cm)
2. Diameter of Earth ≈ 1 pixel (0.027 cm/0.27 mm)
3. Diameter of Mercury ≈ ⅓ pixel (0.009 cm/0.09 mm)
4. Diameter of Venus ≈ 1 pixel (0.027 cm/0.27 mm)
5. Diameter of Mars ≈ ½ pixel (0.0135 cm/0.135 mm)
6. Diameter of Jupiter ≈ 11 pixels (0.3 cm/3 mm)
7. Diameter of Saturn ≈ 9 pixels (0.243 cm/2.43 mm)
8. Diameter of Uranus ≈ 4 pixels (0.1 cm/1 mm)
9. Diameter of Neptune ≈ 4 pixels (0.1 cm/1 mm)

1. Mercury distance from sun in AU = 10/24(0.4) ≈ 5,000 pixels (about 4.5 feet)
2. Venus distance from sun in AU = 17/24(0.7) ≈ 8,500 pixels (about 7.5 feet)
3. Earth distance from sun in AU = 1 ≈ 12,000 pixels (about 10.5 feet)
4. Mars distance from sun in AU = 36/24(1.5) ≈ 18,000 pixels (about 16 feet)
5. Jupiter distance from sun in AU = 125/24(5.2) ≈ 62,500 pixels (about 55 feet)
6. Saturn distance from sun in AU = 228/24(9.5) ≈ 114,000 pixels (about 100 feet)
7. Uranus distance from sun in AU = 461/24(19.2) ≈ 230,500 pixels (about 200 feet)
8. Neptune distance from sun in AU = 720/24(30) ≈ 360,000 pixels (about 318 feet)
9. Fun fact: The Oort Cloud is not shown on this model, but if it were, it would take 1.2 million sprites to show it. It would take 100 miles (600 million model Earths or 0.27 times 600 million millimeters) of scrolling, which would mean you would need to scroll across the screen more than a million times.

*1 AU or Astronomical Unit is the distance from the Earth to the Sun, which is about 93 million miles. It is a unit astronomers use to understand distances without having to use too many miles, which is not a sufficient unit in astronomy due to the immense distances.