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Alpha Centauri Orbits to Scale?
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[QUOTE="Vanadium 50, post: 6827506, member: 110252"] University of Colorado's Fiske Planetarium has a scale model of the solar system. The sun is about the size of a grapefruit, terrestrial planets are tiny specks, and gas giants are the size of small marbles. The model takes up the entire campus. On this scale, placing Alpha Centauri where the sun us places Proxima Centauri in Colorado Springs. If you want both star systems on the same "map" one is in Boulder and the other is in Panama. [/QUOTE]
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