Solar System Model

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Solar System models, especially mechanical models, called orreries, that illustrate the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the Solar System have been built for centuries. While they often showed relative sizes, these models were usually not built to scale. The enormous ratio of interplanetary distances to planetary diameters makes constructing a scale model of the solar system a challenging task. As one example of the difficulty, the distance between the Earth and the Sun is almost 12,000 times the diameter of the Earth. If the smaller planets are to be easily visible to the naked eye, large outdoor spaces are generally necessary, as is some means for highlighting objects that might otherwise not be noticed from a distance. The objects in such models do not move. Traditional orreries often did move and some used clockworks to make the relative speeds of objects accurate. These can be thought of as being correctly scaled in time instead of distance.

Détails du produit

• Collaboration: Susan F Marseken (Editeur), Susan F. Marseken (Editeur), Lambert M. Surhone (Editeur), Miria T Timpledon (Editeur), Miriam T. Timpledon (Editeur)
• Edition: Betascript Publishing
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 07.01.2010
• EAN: 9786130334291
• ISBN: 978-613-0-33429-1
• Pages: 308
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 220 mm x 16 mm
• Poids: 425 g
• Catégorie: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Physique, astronomie