![]() Scientists (creatively) named this potential planet, Planet Nine. This suggests that these objects are being affected by a massive object, which led scientists to suspect that there may be another planet out there in our solar system. In January of 2016, some scientists suggested that our Solar System may yet again be comprised of nine planets, but how did they come to this conclusion? Well, scientists observed that way out in our outer solar system, some Kuiper Belt objects had unusual orbits that were similar to each other. Just to reiterate the massive size of this model, Pluto, which is a mere dust spec in a 1 to 10 billion scale model, is 12 cm in diameter in Sweden’s model. It is represented by the Ericsson Globe, the largest spherical shaped building in the world. The Sun’s size in this model is incredibly impressive with a diameter of 110 m. Earth, located in the Swedish museum of Natural History in Stockholm, is represented by a sculpture that is 65 cm in diameter. The largest solar system model is actually in Sweden with sculptures of planets in various cities across the country! This solar system model runs 300 km and has a scale of 1 to 20 million. While Maine’s model is quite large, it is only the 3rd largest in the world. The solar model that I spotted in Gainesville was similar to that in D.C., but is slightly bigger with a 1 to 4 billion scale and a sculpture of Earth with a. model that goes across the entire National Mall is on a scale of 1 to 10 billion and on this model the Earth is only. Running 64 km long, the scale of the model is 1 to 93 million and Earth is 13.7 cm in diameter. In America, the largest model is the Maine Solar System Model, which is at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Depending on the scale of the model, some models are walkable, some are bikeable and some are so large that they are only drivable. There are 20 permanent scale models of the solar system in the US and around 50 worldwide. The answer is that solar models are relatively numerous. Spotting this solar model made me wonder, where else can people find solar models in America and across the world? I was so excited to spot a solar system model because I thought the only model that existed in the country was at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. ![]() Two weeks ago, I was in Gainesville, Florida when I saw the solar system pass me by as I drove down the street. With all of the information that is included on these records, if it reaches intelligent life I am curious to know whether or not the vast amount of information within this disk will educate or overwhelm aliens.Ī picture I took of Venus, Earth, and Mars at the Gainesville Solar Walk Here is the link if you also want to listen to greetings from 55 languages and here is the link if you are interested in listening to the 21 Earth sounds included in the record. For pictures and a list of all of the images on the Golden Record, click here and for further information about the 90 minute selection of music that the record offers, click here. ![]() While I did include some items from the Golden Record, I was not able to mention most of them. Additionally, the record includes greetings from 55 different spoken languages. Some sounds included on the record included a greeting from 7 year old Nick Sagan (a current American novelist and screenwriter), a whale greeting, a kiss, and my personal favorite item: the song “Johnny B. Architecturally, the Golden Record includes huts, houses and cities, but it also includes more impressive buildings such as the Taj Mahal and the Golden Gate bridge (chosen because it connects two pieces of land separated by water). Interestingly, NASA also included a picture of Olympic sprinters as well because it held a lot of information including the different races of humans, the muscles in the human leg, and what competition and entertainment look like on Earth. In order to show how we receive nutrients, NASA included a picture of a man drinking water, a man eating a sandwich and a woman licking a scoop of ice cream. DNA is etched into the disk to show what our (an perhaps the aliens’) genetic code is stored in. The silhouette of a man and a pregnant woman are featured so that aliens could observe the human anatomy. NASA packed quite a lot of information into this record and each item has a specific purpose. So what exactly is on these records? The answer is a lot. Voyager 1 and 2 both possessed a record and a record player as a way to contact with any potential intelligent life that the missions come across. On these two missions was something different though. NASA launched the two Voyager missions in 1977.
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