The Peppercorn Model of the Solar System |
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The Peppercorn Model, also known as the Thousand Yard Model, is a scale model of the solar system which shows, at the same time and on a linear scale, both the sizes of the planets and the distances between them. At this scale the Sun is about the size of a soccer ball, the Earth is about the size of a peppercorn, and Pluto is a grain of salt about 1000 yards from the Sun. |
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On this scale the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, would be about 4,000 miles away! Scale: 1 inch = 100,000 miles |
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