Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Shrink the Solar System

Today we shrank the sun to the size of a marble. All the rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) are close to the sun. All the gas planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) are further away.  Even at this scale Neptune was still 45.26m away from the sun. Charlie
Caleb and John worked out that the nearest star (Alpha Centauri) to the sun would be near Te Kauwhata. It is only slightly bigger than the sun and is 406km away!

Your job is to find Te Kauwhata on a map.