Scale Model Demos of the Solar System


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Reprinted by permission of Dick Berg, University of Maryland, for use on this website.

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Condition :   Good   
Principle :   Scale Model 
Area of Study :  Solar System  
Equipment :   Beads and Styrofoam balls.
Procedure :   Pick a model that has the appropriate distance scale.  Find "planets" of appropriate size and put at the proper distance.
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   Web Sites

 

"A Solar System Scale Model Meta Page." http://www.vendian.org/mncharity/dir3/solarsystem/

"Scale Model Demonstrations of the Solar System." http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/K12/planetsize/planetsize.html

"The Thousand-Yard Model." http://www.noao.edu/education/peppercorn/
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   References

Cliff Swartz, "Pocket Solar System", TPT, Vol. 43, # 2, Feb. 2005, p. 120.

Keneth J. Adney, "Astro-Perspectives," TPT, Vol. 32, # 8, Nov. 1994, p. 453.

Jeffrey O. Bennett, Thomas R. Ayres, Kenneth B. Center, Matthew F. Carer, and Ronald S. Bass, "The Colorado Scale-Model Solar System", TPT, Vol. 29, # 6, June 1991, p. 2371.

Jay M. Pasachoff,  "Teaching About the Planets at (Large) Scale,"  TPT, Vol. 27, # 1, p.  38, (January 1989).

Joe L. Ferguson and F. Glenn Liming, "Model of the Solar System", TPT, Vol. 16, # 4, Apr. 1978, p. 223.

Lars Broman, "A Model of the Solar System Improved by Means of Pinhole Optics", TPT, Vol. 11, # 8, Nov. 1973, p. 489.

 



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