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To: LukeL
The Grand Rapids museum has a large replica of the Earth, turns on the axis, and spotlights simulate the day side. There's a replica of the Moon, of a sort, placed 200 or so feet away, at the other end of the "whale room", to impress visitors with the scale of just the Earth-Moon system. Kinda humbling.

20 posted on 02/28/2019 11:02:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SunkenCiv

Yep, the true perspective is hard to visualize when it’s all on one page. I was actually watching something about Planet 9 yesterday. They put it in this perspective... If the sun was the size of a basketball, We would be looking for planet 9 at a distance of 18 miles away and it would be the size of an airsoft pellet.


31 posted on 03/01/2019 5:37:09 AM PST by Openurmind
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