The Solar System (In the UK)

[kirovman]

Look at these maps:

Has everyone gone mad?

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40365000/gif/_40365285_cheshire_planets3_map203.gif

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40365000/gif/_40365287_uk_planets6_map203.gif


Now, in the appropriate context

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4320011.stm

They've put the solar system on the scale of the UK.

Good day trip, visit all the sites.

 

[short recoil]

A lot of people think of the soldar system as closer because of those images in books where they like have the sun with all the planets equal spaces apart e.t.c

It is truely massive..........then you think of the rest of space and your mind goes nuts.

Edit: that would be a hell of a day trip, prob not possible unless you had a fast sports car.

 

[Razor]

What is Absolus, Phollus, TL66, Varuna, Chiron and Scotland?

Are they asteroids or comets?

 

[kirovman]

What is Absolus, Phollus, TL66, Varuna, Chiron and Scotland?

Are they asteroids or comets?

I guess comets. (I don't think there's many asteroids outside the asteroid belt).

 

[Kangy]

Ceres is near my house o_o

 

[xcellerate]

i remember bill nye the science guy did this, he put all the planets on the side of a road and biked like 20 something kilometers to find these planets that were the size of marbles and ball bearings.

 

[StardogChampion]

Why are they all in England?

 

[kirovman]

Why are they all in England?

They're not? There's a couple in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland too. And the Shetlands.