Sweden Solar System
 
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Locations of the models |
Locations of the models, Stockholm region |
The Sweden Solar System is a full-scale model of the solar system in Sweden . The center is the multi-purpose arena Ericsson Globe in Stockholm , which represents the sun in the model . The planets and other objects are spread all over Sweden, from Kiruna in the north to Karlshamn in the south.
History and structure of the model
The idea for the Sweden Solar System arose in the 1990s during a seminar at the astronomical observatory in Saltsjöbaden , which was part of Stockholm University . The driving forces behind the project were the plasma physicist Nils Brenning and the astronomer Gösta Gahm. The model was built up gradually, and expansions are also planned in the future.
The Ericsson Globe on the southern edge of Stockholm city center, the largest spherical building in the world , acts as the center and sun of the model . The other objects are made up of true-to-scale sculptures, flower borders or, in exceptional cases, engraved plates. The smallest model in the illustration, the asteroid Palomar-Leiden (5025 PL), is only a fifth of a millimeter in size. The Jupiter model is a flower border with a diameter of seven meters.
The scale of the entire model is 1:20 million. One astronomical unit corresponds to 7.6 km, so the model of the earth was placed in the Natural History Museum . All inner planets are no more than 12 km away from the model center.
The model of Jupiter, the closest celestial body from the outer planets, is in front of Arlanda Airport , about 40 km from the Ericsson Globe. In Uppsala , 73 km from the center, the Saturn model is planned and the outermost dwarf planet Sedna is 810 km away. In addition to the planets, the model also shows other objects in our solar system, such as asteroids and comets . A representation of the termination shock in Kiruna, 950 km from the center point, is currently the most distant model.
This makes Sweden Solar System the world's largest model of our solar system. Smaller solar system examples are included in the article Planet Path.
The sun
| object | space | Size (diameter in m) | Distance from Ericsson Globe (km) |
Location coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Ericsson Globe , Stockholm | 110 (71 would be true to scale) | 0 | 59 ° 17 ′ 36.8 " N , 18 ° 4 ′ 59.6" E |
The inner planets
| object | space | Size (diameter in m) | Distance from Ericsson Globe (km) |
Location coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mercury | in front of Stockholm City Museum | 0.25 | 2.9 | 59 ° 19 ′ 11 " N , 18 ° 4 ′ 14" E |
| Venus | at the Technical University , Stockholm | 0.62 | 5.5 | 59 ° 20 ′ 51 " N , 18 ° 4 ′ 21.4" E |
| earth | Naturhistoriska riksmuseet , Stockholm | 0.65 | 7.6 | 59 ° 22 '8.5 " N , 18 ° 3' 12.3" E |
| moon | Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Stockholm | 0.176 | 7.6 | 59 ° 22 '8.5 " N , 18 ° 3' 12.3" E |
| Mars | Mörby Centrum , Danderyd | 0.35 | 11.6 | 59 ° 23 '52.6 " N , 18 ° 2' 11.6" E |
The outer planets
| object | space | Size (diameter in m) | Distance from Ericsson Globe (km) |
Location coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter | Arlanda Airport , Märsta | 7.3 | 40 | 59 ° 38 '58.5 " N , 17 ° 55' 50.4" E |
| Saturn | Celsiustorget, Uppsala | 6.1 | 73 | 59 ° 51 ′ 34 " N , 17 ° 38 ′ 14" E |
| Uranus | new location planned in Gävle | 2.6 | 164 | |
| Neptune | Park in Söderhamn | 2.5 | 229 | 61 ° 18 ′ 7 ″ N , 17 ° 3 ′ 19 ″ E |
Plutoids
| object | space | Size (diameter in m) | Distance from Ericsson Globe (km) |
Location coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pluto | Park at Staffanshof, Delsbo , Hudiksvall Municipality | 0.12 | 300 | 61 ° 47 ′ 52 " N , 16 ° 32 ′ 58" E |
| Charon | Park at Staffanshof, Delsbo , Hudiksvall Municipality | 0.06 | 300 | 61 ° 47 ′ 52 " N , 16 ° 32 ′ 58" E |
| Ixion | Technicus, Härnösand | 0.065 | 360 | 62 ° 37 ′ 49 ″ N , 17 ° 56 ′ 12 ″ E |
| Eris | Business park in Umeå | 0.13 | 510 | 63 ° 50 ′ 5 " N , 20 ° 15 ′ 37" E |
| Sedna | House of Technology, Luleå | 0.10 | 810 | 65 ° 36 '59.5 " N , 22 ° 8' 6" E |
Other objects
| object | space | Size (mm) | Distance from Ericsson Globe (km) |
Location coordinates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asteroid (433) Eros | School in Danderyd | 2 x 0.7 x 0.7 | 11.7 | 59 ° 23 ′ 38 " N , 18 ° 2 ′ 41" E |
| Asteroid (36614) Saltis | School in Saltsjöbaden , former observatory |
<1 | 11.7 | 59 ° 16 ′ 21 ″ N , 18 ° 18 ′ 17 ″ E |
| Asteroid (5025) Palomar-Leiden | Alsike | 0.2 | 60 | approximately 59 ° 45 ′ 25 " N , 17 ° 45 ′ 57" E |
| Saturn's moons | Schools in Uppsala | - | 73 | |
| Halley's Comet | Balthazar Science Center, Skövde |
204 | 58 ° 23 '14 " N , 13 ° 51' 11" E | |
| Comet Swift-Tuttle | Science center in Karlshamn | <10 (diameter of the core) | 390 | 56 ° 11 ′ 39 " N , 14 ° 51 ′ 9" E |
| Termination Shock |
Institute for Space Physics , Kiruna |
950 | 67 ° 50 ′ 27 " N , 20 ° 24 ′ 34.5" E |
See also
literature
- Nils Brenning, Gösta Gahm: Solsystemet i tid och rum och en resa genom Sweden Solar System . Graphium Norstedts Media, Stockholm 1999, ISBN 91-971722-5-1
Web links
- Sweden Solar System (English)
References and comments
- ^ Nils Brenning och Gösta Gahm: Solsystemet i tid och rum och en resa genom Sweden Solar System , Graphium Norstedts Media, Stockholm 1999, p. 13
- ↑ The last model so far was inaugurated on January 14, 2010 at the former Saltsjöbaden observatory (today the school building). It is a sculpture by the sculptor Bosse Falk and depicts the asteroid (36614) Saltis .
- ↑ a b The Uranus model in Furuvik has been vandalized and a new model has not yet been erected near Gävle .
- ↑ Naturhistoriska riksmuseet - Sweden Solar System ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Swedish)
- ↑ The diameter of the sun on a scale of 1:20 million would result in a model diameter of 71 m. Ericsson Globe, however, has an outer diameter of 110 m and thus deviates from the chosen scale.
- ↑ Press release (PDF; 2.1 MB) on the inauguration of a provisional street carpet for the Saturn in Uppsala, read January 30, 2010.
- ↑ Article ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. for the inauguration, Netzzeitung Tentakel 2006: 1, read January 30, 2010. (Swedish)
- ↑ List of models of Saturn's moons at Uppsala's schools, read January 30, 2010.
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