{"product_id":"the-planets-are-very-very-very-far-away-a-scale-model-of-the-solar-system-9781615197774","title":"The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Scale Model of the Solar System","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Mike Vago\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Experiment\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Experiment\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Science \u0026amp; Nature - Astronomy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a place mat, or a lunch box, or into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything--and so this is no ordinary book. Seven double-gatefold pages open out not once but \u003cem\u003etwice\u003c\/em\u003e, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt a 100,000,000,000-to-1 scale, the Sun is about the size of a dime. And five feet away from the Sun, we find . . . Earth, the size of a pinhead. A \u003cem\u003ehundred\u003c\/em\u003e-billion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or onto a soccer field)! How small do we need to go? Unfold the next three spreads to find out . . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Experiment","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45030048989335,"sku":"9781615197774","price":1139.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781615197774.webp?v=1769205081","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-planets-are-very-very-very-far-away-a-scale-model-of-the-solar-system-9781615197774","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}