Created 11-kilometer-long model of the solar system

Overstreet Wiley and incredibly Alex Gorosh created model of the solar system, the diameter of which is approximately 11 kilometers. Enthusiasts wanted to show people how small in comparison with the heavenly bodies. The process of building the model and impressive result the guys captured on video - and this mini-movie urgent need to look at.

A huge model of the solar system decided to build in the state of Nevada, in the Black Rock Desert. There are carried out cult festival Burning Man. Its open spaces - it's part of the dried prehistoric lake Laontan. It is in this area and began working Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, restoring a step-by-step planetary system.

Alex Wiley noted that none of illustration does not show how the planets are tiny compared to their orbits. So they wanted to build the correct scale model of the solar system and headed in the vast desert. It is only there that they can recreate the desired distance from the planet to planet. As a prototype of the heavenly bodies using appropriate size of objects - such as a small pin became Mercury and glass ball - Earth. Orbits laid through the vehicle.

To build a model of the solar system, the guys took 36 hours. During this time, Wiley and Alex were filming, set "planet" strictly according orbits measured by the scale and visibility of each tested "celestial body". Separately, each path will highlight different shades - to write on the viewer visually show the dimensions and proportions. The result is a reliable model of the solar system - a spectacular and moving.

Something like created in 1998-2005 in Sweden. However, in the sun here we have decided to consider an existing object - the stadium Ericsson Globe, the largest hemispherical building in the world. Taking its starting point in the Stockholm placed a model of the planets so that the scope and size "orbits" were true. Ericsson Globe diameter is 110 meters, and for the purity of the experiment assume that this model also includes the Sun and the solar corona. Swedish solar system consists not only of the planets. There is also displayed and the main satellite, the moon, large asteroids and comets.

Based on materials Sploid and Popular Science.