Re: Solar System Models

terry <tfmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 1, 12:04 am, terry <tfm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 29, 11:16 pm, fairwa...@xxxxxxxxx (Derek Lyons) wrote:
Does anyone know of solar system model calculator that will let me
input the size of a particular orbit rather than the size of the Sun
or somesuch?

what exactly do you want to do. do you mean you want to design a scale
model of the solar system, by inputing the size of a particular orbit?
and scaling everything accordingly.  that is easy to do in Excel and i
did it once, but can no longer find it.  I was thinking of making a solar
system model with my daughter, but the problem is you cant easily make a
scale model of the solar system because the distance of the orbits is so
large compared to the size of the planets it is like having golf balls
placed miles apart.  There are a few such models around the world though
where the planets and the orbit distances are to scale.

IF all you want is the excel spread*** to do such a calculation
where you can vary the scale size , just let me know, I would be happy
to whip one up again.

cancel that, here is one off the web
http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/

That's precisely the kind I'm not looking for... :) Because it
scales everything off the size of the Sun. I need one that scales
everything off the size of Pluto's average distance from the Sun.

I tried using the one above by plugging in various numbers for the
size of the Sun... but it got very tiresome very quickly.

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