Well, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake got some respect as well. Hell, Ceres used to be a planet before being the thing used to define what an asteroid IS.
In case anyone is wondering about the identity of the song playing in the background, it's the theme to "The Forgotten Pistolero" (originally known as "Il pistolero dell'Ave Maria", sometimes known as "Gunman of Ave Maria"), written by Roberto Pregadio.
Cierah Catastrophe I'm assuming you're joking, but if not, then SpongeBob premiered more than four years after this footage of Bill's scale model of the solar system was first broadcasted.
This was made before 2008 i think Also why not include pluto? Im planning on building a model like this (smaller) and i already drew them, including pluto
+Vejo81 Pluto were not in our hearts and minds BEFORE its degradation to dwarf planet, so why start now? I'm thinking more like it was about time we finally got rid of that freakin mooch, after 85 years of BIRGing as the 9th member of The Planets!
+Mike Patton Speak for yourself Mr. Patton. Pluto has always been my favorite planet. The little planet that could. Just hanging on, far out there by itself.
This has been my baseline for thinking about planet distances for years. Elite Dangerous finally gave me a chance to see it on a 1:1 scale. Thanks for this Bill.
Still waiting for Nye to give me credit for this demonstration: My father met him on a flight to Seattle and showed him my science fair project, a 9 mile scale model of the solar system, featured in a local news article.
Seriously? Isn't there a chance that at that same time, there were others doing the same thing, and maybe others years earlier? Maybe none of you was first. Science teachers are trying hard to keep their students engaged, so I would think many others have done this, too.
Great biking excercise! Here's a neat approach for the Earth and the Moon. The ratio in diameters of the Earth and the Moon is aprox. (6371 km / 1737 km =) 3.7. Pick a basketball for the Earth and a tennis ball for the Moon, which have aprox the same ratio (9.5" / 2.7" = ) 3.5. Set the basketball and the tennis ball next to each other on the floor. Now roll the basketball away from the tennis ball 10 full circles. That would be their relative distance. Note that whatever ball you use for the Earth, 10 full circles away is the aprox. distance to the Moon, the Earth's full Meridian circle being aprox. 40,000 km and the distance to the Moon being aprox. 400,000 km. Cheers!
According to a really recent article I read yesterday, Pluto might actually be reclassified as a planet because it now has five moons and it has other characteristics of what we consider a planet.
.....and of course the scale of the distance between the stars is even more mind blowing! If our sun was the size of a grain of sand, its nearest neighbor (Proxima Centauri) would be 4 miles away. If each star were the size of a grapefruit, you would have to place them 2,500 miles apart for proper scale. That is the approximate distance from Los Angeles to New York!
Music is called "Ballata Per Un Pistolero", also known as "The Gunfighter" by Roberto Predagio and Franco Micalizzi, written for the 1969 spaghetti western "The Forgotten Pistolero" (The Gunman of Ave Maria).
A very good illustration.Like it. I just did some basic calcs and I estimate on this scale he would have to cycle another 12km+ (~8miles?) to catch up with voyager 1 probe. Further out - The nearest star is more than half way round the world (>25,000km). Thats a whole lotta cycling Bill.
How fucking amazing is it that they sent a spacecraft 10 freaking years ago on it's way to Pluto and only missed their ETA of the closest point by a bit more than ONE MINUTE? I swear, NASA people are not humans. They are just too smart.
I remember seeing this while I was in highschool and it really is a great model to put the distances into a form we can somewhat comprehend. The distances to the stars are uncomprehendable no model can be made to allow us to understand how vast those distances are.
Nesmaniac There is a model that displays the whole Solar System from Sun to the edge of the heliosphere on a 1:20 Million scale and if covers the distance of 590 Miles
Stuff like this is why I love RU-vid. My kids (and I) saw this when they were little. I just put a few terms in the search bar, and this came right up! It amazes me to think that YT is only seven years old--can't imagine how I got along without it. And big kudos to grinc333 for posting--THANKS!
I remember after this he shows how far away the next closest star was to scale and he hops on a plane then a bus then he hikes he goes hella far......that was crazy
@@dogsareawesome9197 I've met him in person. He is 6ft tall. A meter is about as tall as the bike he's riding, and that visual of the sun is smaller in diameter than the bike wheels.
It frustrates me a bit that every picture of our solar system has all the planets bunched up together and only illustrates their order and maybe their size. I remembered this episode and that the distance between bodies in the solar system are like atoms, with each body far apart with empty space between them (in the case of atoms I mean the nucleus being so far from its electron cloud.)
I hear you man, that's one of the annoying things about illustrating The Solar System, the reason why people don't, is only because of how far they are from one-another.
I had rounded down the sun diameter (1 meter) to 1 million km. That gave back the distance to Alpha Centauri (4ly or 45 trillion km) as 45 thousand kilometers. Getting the CORRECT sun diameter (1.4 million km) I get 32 thousand km for the 4 ly between the Sun and Alpha Centauri. What am I doing wrong?
If you thought Bill Nye has a hard time riding all the way to Pluto, imagine how hard it would be for him to ride the relative distance to 541132 Leleākūhonua , which has a semi-major axis of 1085 AU. And, if you factor in his measurement of 1 AU = 100 meters, Leleākūhonua would be 108,500 meters, or 108.5 kilometers, or 67.42 miles.
I've worked it out for other measures: if the sun is the size of "@", then the distance between the sun and earth is about twice the width of youtube's comment collum.
@seanheb Dunno the song name, but it's in the same vein as the Ennio Morricone Spaghetti Westerns (Fistful of Dollars, Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.)
hi, i want to do this model for a project i have to do for science, and this is perfect. the only thing is how do i know where to put each planet? i dont have as much space as you, i have mapped out 2,000 feet of use. will you please help me find where the planets would be within 2,000 feet? thank you soooo much. :D please, anyone who is able to answer please answer.
Humm, I'm not sure this is correct. Distances may be ok. But the Sun is way too small. Looking from Earth it should be proportionally the same size as we see outside. It may be a camera thing but it just looks too small to me.
the radius of the sun is 695,500 km, radius of earth is 6378.1 km, so we divide earth/sun and get that the earth in the model should have a radius of .009m if the sun has a radius of 1 meter. Look up telephoto lens vs wide angle lens on google image search to see what the problem you're having is. Also keep in mind that this footage was shot with a 480p resolution.
the sun is the same size as a full moon...hence our ability to have a total eclipse of the sun....and our capacity for pain is the same size as our capability to love....hence our ability to have a total eclipse of the heart.
“Uh! Uh. There’s Mars.” And yet that “short” little distance is extraordinary and takes the most advanced space travel technology we have available today to enable humans to make the distance. Actually achieving this “little distance” with actual people will be one of the most remarkable achievements in history. That is no short distance.
I did a simple piece of math that to scale, 100 meters in the model is about one AU in real terms, that means Pluto and Charon are 40 AU from the sun o.o;
