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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Astronomy Sweden Attempts to Recreate the Solar System, Fails Miserably

Posted by Ned Lannamann on Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:14 PM

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It has been brought to my attention that the country of Sweden has attempted to create a scale replica of our solar system within its borders. They've got the sun represented by the Ericsson Globe (pictured above) in Stockholm, with the planet of Mercury—a 25-centimeter bronze sphere—located 2900 meters away (whatever a meter is), Venus a little further out, Earth, Mars, and so on.

VERY CLEVER, SWEDEN. However, I call shenanigans.

To wit, a few problems:

1. You have included Pluto in your little science fair project, represented by a 12 cm ball located in far northern Sweden near the Dellen Lakes. I don't know if you REMEMBER, Sweden, but the rest of the world all decided that Pluto is no longer a planet. So, NOPE.

2. You have included replicas of some other supposed celestial bodies in this model, bearing names like Sedna, Ixion, and Eris. COME ON, Sweden, you clearly made these planets up. No one has EVER heard of these things before. And the inclusion of an asteroid called "Saltis"? Baloney.

3. News flash, Sweden! While you decided to include a bunch of made-up planets, you neglected to include Tyche—the newest member of our solar system, a gigantic planet four times the size of Jupiter. What's more, if Tyche was to be included in your dopey little planet parade, it would have to be located 114,000 kilometers away from your fake sun. That's well outside the borders of your country, Sweden. So suck it.

4. Take a good, long look at the picture above, at your so-called "model" of the sun. Notice anything, Sweden? That's right: Unlike the actual sun, it is NOT ON FIRE.

4. Also, Sweden, I don't know if you are aware of this, but all the planets ROTATE. Your fake little planets just sit there not moving. NICE TRY.

In summation: Sweden? BUSTED.

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Pluto represent! #teampluto #bringitback
Posted by kiala on February 17, 2011 at 5:19 PM · Report
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This project is fatally compromised due to the failure to represent deez nutz.
Posted by eldepeche on February 17, 2011 at 5:23 PM · Report
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didnt Portland used to have an even more fail replica of the solar system on Ankeny?
Posted by SmutLust on February 17, 2011 at 5:48 PM · Report
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There's no picture of Uranus! (In before *all* Uranus jokes....)
Posted by LawyerPepper on February 17, 2011 at 8:42 PM · Report
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Not only that, but since Pluto doesn't rotate on the same plane as the major planets, that small ball should either be suspended many "kilometers" above the Dellen Lakes or many "kilometers" beneath them. Also, they should just speak English, since they all know it and it's not as goofy-sounding as Swedish.
Posted by Todd Mecklem on February 17, 2011 at 8:51 PM · Report
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Well, Eris is actually quite a well known dwarf planet. And Pluto is also a dwarf planet, so you can't really complain that it's not a planet... because it is! Just dwarf. Sedna and Ixion are both dwarf planet contenders as well, but their spots have not really been confirmed yet, so I can see leaving those on your complaint-list.
Posted by BruceWang on February 17, 2011 at 10:53 PM · Report
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1. pluto is a planetoid
2. if you "brilliant astronomer" didn't heard of...tell much about your astronomical knowledge. Eris is actualy larger than pluto, and you can read more starting here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Neptuni…
3.tyche is only seen by 2 conspiration-theory amateur astronomers. nasa declined these affirmations, so does the European Journal of Astronomy...carry on, inform then talk
4. as you observed, in no solar-model in the world, sun isn't on fire, neither jupiter is composed from hidrogen...they build those from plastic, letting the human imagination to fill the rest. i see you got none.
5. does any planet rotate in any astronomical book? there are printed animated gifs in your books? or you only study the colouring books?

pseudo-science is your definition, now delete my comment
Posted by planetoid on February 19, 2011 at 3:29 AM · Report

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