Week 7: Our Solar System

 Lab: 

Today we discussed the planets in our solar system, creating a model of the four planets closest to the sun. Our task was to create a proportional model, discovering how small the planets are compared to the sun and how vast our galaxy is. We decided to make our model 60 meters long, with our sun at 350mm in diameter. At first, we made our sun way too small, meaning our planets were a fraction of a millimeter in diameter, which did not work for this particular model. With that information, we lengthened the distance of our model, and made the diameter of the sun much larger so that we could properly create our model. 


Sun: 0m                                                    Mercury: 14.5m                                       Venus: 27.1m

                    
Earth: 37m                                          Mars: 57.7m
Moon: 37.096m

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