Solar System models, especially mechanical models, called orreries, that illustrate the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the Solar System have been built for centuries. While they often showed relative sizes, these models were usually not built to scale. The enormous ratio of interplanetary distances to planetary diameters makes constructing a scale model of the Solar System a challenging task. As one example of the difficulty, the distance between the Earth and the Sun is almost 12,000 times the diameter of the Earth.
If the smaller planets are to be easily visible to the naked eye, large outdoor spaces are generally necessary, as is some means for highlighting objects that might otherwise not be noticed from a distance. The Boston Museum of Science had placed bronze models of the planets in major public buildings, all on similar stands with interpretive labels.[1] For example, the model of Jupiter was located in the cavernous South Station waiting area. The properly-scaled, basket-ball-sized model is 1.3 miles (2.14 km) from the model Sun which is located at the museum, graphically illustrating the immense empty space in the Solar System.
The objects in such large models do not move. Traditional orreries often did move, and some used clockworks to display the relative speeds of objects accurately. These can be thought of as being correctly scaled in time, instead of distance.
Permanent true scale models
[edit]Many towns and institutions have built outdoor scale models of the Solar System. Here is a table comparing these models with the actual system.
| Name | Location | Scale: 1 : โฆ |
Sun dia. | Earth dia. | SunโEarth | SunโPluto | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual Solar System | 1 | 1.392 million km | 12,760 km | 149.6 million km | 5.914 billion km | ||
| Sweden Solar System[2] | ๐ Sweden Stockholm, Sweden |
20,000,000 | 71 m | 65 cm | 7,600 m | 300 km | permanent; country-wide (begun 1998) |
| Solar System Drive[3][4] | ๐ Australia Coonabarabran, Australia |
38,000,000 | 37 m | 34 cm | 4,100 m | 205 km | permanent; drivable; non-geodetic (est. 1997) |
| Space for MUCO project[5] | ๐ Belgium Brussels, Belgium |
40,000,000 | 34.8 m | 32 cm | 3,730 m | 147 km | permanent; country wide; non-scale sculptures (est. 2004) |
| The North American Solar System Model | ๐ Canada Saskatchewan, Canada |
44,148,400 | 31.53 m | 28.8 cm | 3,389 m | 133.1 km | permanent; giants-drivable. Terrestrials-walkable. (est. 2025, still under construction) |
| Maine Solar System[6][7] | ๐ United States Presque Isle, Maine |
93,000,000 | 15 m | 13.7 cm | 1,600 m | 64 km | permanent; drivable (est.2003) |
| Mont Megantic Dark Sky Reserve Great Solar System | ๐ Canada Parc national du Mont-Mรฉgantic, Canada |
100,000,000 | 14 m | 12.4 cm | 1,450 m | 57 km | permanent; drivable (est.2018) |
| Otago Central Interplanetary Cycle Trail[8][9][10] | ๐ New Zealand Otago Central Rail Trail, New Zealand |
100,000,000 | 13.91 m | 12 cm | 1,496 m | 59.06 km | permanent; cyclable (est.2017) |
| Riverfront Museum Solar System[11][12][13][14] | ๐ United States Peoria, Illinois |
99,000,000 | 11 m | 10.0 cm | 1,200 m | 47 km | permanent; drivable (est. 1992?) |
| Vienna Solar System | ๐ Austria Vienna, Austria |
163,764,706 | 8.5 m | 7.78 cm | 913 m | 36 km | under construction since 2018. Physical + Augmented Reality |
| Planet Lofoten[15] | ๐ Norway Lofoten, Norway |
200,000,000 | 7 m | 6.4 cm | 750m | 30 km | under construction[as of?] |
| Planet Trek Dane County | ๐ United States Madison, Wisconsin |
200,000,000 | 7 m | 6.6 cm | 777 m | 38.3 km | permanent; fully accessible by foot and bike paths (est. 2009) |
| Sunspot Solar System Model[16][17][18][19] | ๐ United States Sunspot, New Mexico |
250,000,000 | 5.6 m | 5.1 cm | 1.5 m | 23.6 km | permanent, drivable |
| Lethbridge Solar System Model | ๐ Canada Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada |
254,000,000 | 5.5 m | 5 cm | 500 m | 14.7 km (Neptune) | permanent, drivable, walkable (est. 2022) |
| El Sistema Solar de la comarca de Ciudad Rodrigo | ๐ Spain Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain |
290,000,000 | 4.8 m | 4.4 cm | 1.2 m | 25 km | permanent, Walk & Drive |
| If the Earth were a Ping-Pong ball[citation needed] | ๐ United Kingdom Westminster, London |
318,905,000 | 4.36 m | 4 cm | ? | ? | In construction; Walk & Drive (est. 2018) Centered around Deans Yard, Westminster |
| Moab Scale Model of the Solar System[20] | ๐ United States Moab, Utah |
385,937,677 | 3.6 m | 2.4 cm | ? | 15.3 km | permanent; Walk and Drive (est. 2007) |
| Light Speed Planet Walk[21] | ๐ United States Anchorage, Alaska |
390,000,000 | ? | ? | ? | 16.6 km | permanent; drivable (est. 2005) |
| The Solar System to Scale | ๐ Portugal Estremoz, Portugal |
414,000,000 | 3.4 m | 3.1 cm | 361 m | 14.3 km | permanent; drivable; bikeable |
| Solar System Stroll[22] | ๐ Slovakia Bratislava, Slovakia |
464,000,000 | 3 m | 2.7 cm | 322 m | 13 km | permanent; bikeable, drivable; under construction since 2024 |
| Somerset Space Walk | ๐ United Kingdom Bridgwater Canal, Somerset, England |
530,000,000 | 2.5 m | ? | ? | 11 km | permanent; bikeable (est. 1997) |
| York's Solar System model | ๐ United Kingdom York, England |
575,872,239 | 2.4 m | 2.2 cm | 260 m | 10.3 km | permanent; bikeable (est. 1999) |
| Traverse Bay Community Solar System[23] | ๐ United States Traverse City, Michigan |
592,763,356 | 0.9 m | ? | 209 m | 10.0 km | permanent; bikeable (est. 2004) |
| Michigan Solar System Model[24] | ๐ United States Coleman, Michigan |
608,000,000 | 2.3 m | 2.1 cm | 324 m | 9.8 km | permanent; bike trail Sun and Pls. Spheres (2017) |
| Solar System | ๐ Czech Republic Opava, Czech Republic |
627,000,000 | 2.2 m | 2.0 cm | 239 m | 9.42 km | permanent; bikeable; walkable; drivable (est. 2006) |
| Nine Views | ๐ Croatia Zagreb, Croatia |
680,000,000 | 2.0 m | 1.9 cm | 225 m | 8.7 km | permanent; bikeable (est. 2004) |
| Walk the Solar System | ๐ Canada Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada |
682,353,000 | 2.0 m | 1.9 cm | 219 m | 8.6 km | under construction[as of?] |
| McCarthy Observatory[25] | ๐ United States New Milford, Connecticut |
761,155,000 | 1.8 m | 1.7 cm | 195 m | 7.1 km | permanent; bikeable (est. 2009) |
| Planet Walk[26] | ๐ United States Glen Burnie, Maryland. |
781,000,000 | ? | ? | 191.5 m | 7.56 km | Walkable, bikeable (est. 2008). Part of the permanent Baltimore & Annapolis Trail. |
| Trilho do Sistema Solar | ๐ Portugal Paredes de Coura, Portugal |
831,000,000 | 1.675 m | 1.533 cm | 180 m | 5.42 km (Neptune) | permanent; walkable; bikeable (est. 2016) |
| Planetenpad Utrecht | ๐ Netherlands Utrecht, The Netherlands |
1,000,000,000 | 1.3 m | 1.3 cm | 150 m | 7.4 km (Neptune) | Leads from Centre Utrecht to Rhijnauwen, on foot, on bike or on kayak |
| Model of the Solar System | ๐ Finland Helsinki, Finland |
1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.2 cm | 149.6 m | 6.1 km | permanent; bikeable |
| Planetenmodell Hagen | ๐ Germany Hagen, Germany |
1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.3 cm | 150 m | 5.9 km | permanent; bikeable (est. 1959) |
| Planetenweg Schwarzbach | ๐ Germany Kriftel, Germany |
1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.3 cm | 150 m | 5.9 km | permanent; bikeable (est. 1998) |
| Uetliberg Planetenweg | ๐ Switzerland Zรผrich, Switzerland |
1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.3 cm | 150 m | 5.9 km | permanent; bikeable |
| Planetenwanderweg | ๐ Germany Ehrenfriedersdorf, Germany |
1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.3 cm | 150 m | 5.9 km | permanent; bikeable |
| Planetary Trail | ๐ Czech Republic Hradec Krรกlovรฉ, Czech Republic |
1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.3 cm | 150 m | 5.9 km | permanent; bikeable (est. 2005) |
| Planetary Trail | ๐ Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic |
1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.3 cm | 150 m | 13 km (Sedna as discovered) 5.9 km (Pluto) |
permanent; bike & walk; all objects above 1000km; (est. 13 May 2018) |
| Melbourne Solar System[27][28] | ๐ Australia Melbourne, Australia |
1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.3 cm | 150 m | 5.9 km (Pluto) 40 140 km (Proxima Centauri) |
permanent; bikeable (est. 2008) Proxima Centauri scale distance calculated travelling Melbourne to Melbourne via the Poles.[29] |
| Scale Model Solar System[30] | ๐ United States Eugene, Oregon |
1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.2 cm | 150 m | 5.9 km | permanent; bikeable (est. 1997) |
| Planetstien, Sandnes | ๐ Norway Sandnes, Norway |
1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.2 cm | 150 m | 5.9 km | permanent; walkable, bikeable (est. 2010) |
| Planetstien, Lemvig | ๐ Denmark Lemvig, Denmark |
1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.2 cm | 150 m | 5.9 km | permanent; walkable |
| Grand Trunk Pathway Solar System Model | ๐ Canada Terrace, British Columbia |
1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.3 cm | 150 m | 6 km | permanent; walkable/bikeable (est. 2018) |
| Planet Walk | ๐ Germany Munich, Germany |
1,290,000,000 | 1.1 m | 1.0 cm | 116 m | 4.6 km | permanent; walkable (est. 1995) |
| Strolling at the speed of light | ๐ Canada La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada |
1,500,000,000 | 0.9 m | 0.8 cm | 100 m | 3 km (Neptune) | permanent; walkable (est. 2009) (temp?) |
| State of the Solar System[31][32][33] | ๐ United States Bellingham, Washington |
1,826,770,000 | 0.762 m | 0.6858 cm | 82 m | ? | permanent; walkable (est. 2016) |
| Meteoria Sรถderfjรคrden | ๐ Finland Vaasa, Finland |
2,000,000,000 | 0.7 m | ? | ? | ? | permanent; walkable |
| Planetenweg Gรถttingen | ๐ Germany Gรถttingen, Germany |
2,000,000,000 | 0.70 m | 0.65 cm | 75 m | 3.2 km | permanent; walkable/bikeable (est. 2013) |
| Solar System Walking Tour[34][35][36] | ๐ United States Gainesville, Georgia |
2,000,000,000 | 0.7 m | 0.6 cm | 75 m | 2.9 km | permanent; walkable (est. 2000) |
| Rymdpromenaden ("Spacewalk") | ๐ Sweden Gothenburg, Sweden |
2,000,000,000 | 0.7 m | 0.6 cm | 75 m | 3 km | permanent; walkable (est. 1978) |
| Montshire Museum of Science[37] | ๐ United States Norwich, Vermont |
2,200,000,000 | 0.6 m | 0.6 cm | 68 m | 2.7 km | permanent; walkable |
| Ride to Pluto: Boise's Solar System[38] | ๐ United States Boise Greenbelt, Boise, Idaho |
2,200,000,000 | 0.5 m | ? | ? | 2.4 km | permanent; walkable & bikeable |
| The Solar walk[39][40] | ๐ United States Longview, Washington |
2,240,000,000 | 0.6 m | 0.6 cm | 56.94 m | 2.7 km | permanent; walkable (est. 2001) |
| Akaa Solar System Scale Model | ๐ Finland Akaa, Finland |
3,000,000,000 | 0.46 m | 0.4 cm | 49.9 m | 1.958 km (Pluto) 13 370 km (Proxima Centauri) |
permanent; walkable (est. 2017), Proxima Centauri in Yulara, Australia |
| Elmhurst Scale Model of the Solar System[41][42] | ๐ United States Elmhurst, Illinois |
3,044,620,000 | 0.5 m | 0.4 cm | 49.1 m | 1.929 km | permanent; walk & drive (est. 2013) |
| Solar System model group of sculptures | ๐ Hungary Kecskemรฉt, Hungary |
3,300,000,000 | 0.418 m | 0.4 cm | 45 m | 1.8 km | permanent; walkable (est. 2002) |
| Milky Way path | ๐ Netherlands Westerbork, The Netherlands |
3,700,000,000 | ? | ? | ? | 2.5 km | permanent; walkable |
| Solar Walk | ๐ United States Gainesville, Florida |
4,000,000,000 | 0.3 m | 0.3 cm | 37.4 m | 1.5 km | permanent; walkable (est. 2002) |
| Otford Solar System Model[43] | ๐ United Kingdom Otford, England |
4,595,700,000 | 0.3 m | 0.3 cm | 32 m | 900 m | permanent; walkable; Includes: Proxima Centauri in Los Angeles, USA; Barnard's Star in Port Stanley, Falkland Islands; Sirius in Sydney, Australia; and Ross 154 in Christchurch, New Zealand |
| Wooster Planet Walk | ๐ United States Wooster, Ohio |
5,000,000,000 | 0.3 m | 0.3 cm | 30 m | 1.2 km | permanent; walkable (est. 2014) |
| The Sagan Planet Walk | ๐ United States Ithaca, New York |
5,000,000,000 | 0.3 m | 0.3 cm | 30 m | 1.2 km | permanent; walkable (est. 1997) |
| Delmar Loop Planet Walk | ๐ United States University City, Missouri |
5,000,000,000 | 0.3 m | 0.2 cm | 30 m | 870 m (Neptune) | permanent; walkable (est. 2009) |
| The Solar Walk | ๐ United States Cleveland, Ohio |
5,280,000,000 | 0.3 m | 0.2 cm | 28.4 m | 1.1 km | permanent; walkable |
| Solar System Walk
An Exploration of Scale |
๐ United States Carlsbad, California |
5,280,000,000 | ? | ? | 28 m | 1.119 km | Located near Lake Calavera |
| O Sistema Solar no Parque[44] | ๐ Brazil Natal, Brazil |
7,000,000,000 | 0.2 m | 1.8 mm | 22 m | 875 m | permanent; walkable/bikeable (est. 3 June 2016) |
| A True Scale Model of the Solar System[45][46] | ๐ United States Cookeville, Tennessee |
10,000,000,000 | 0.14 m | 0.12 cm | 15 m | 590 m | permanent; walkable (est. 2017) |
| Voyage National Program [1] | ๐ United States National Mall, Washington, D.C. (2001) Kansas City, Missouri (2008)Space Center Houston, Texas (2008) Corpus Christi, Texas (2009)Boulder, Colorado (2021) Palo Alto, California (2022)[47][48] Broken Arrow, Oklahoma (2022) Ocala, Florida (2022) Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana (2022) Dover, New Hampshire (2023) Spokane, Washington (2022) Memphis, Tennessee (2023) Chalmette, Louisiana (2023) Jonesboro, Arkansas (2023) Troy, New York (2024) |
10,000,000,000 | 0.1 m | 0.1 cm | 15 m | 600 m | permanent; walkable; US national program |
| Lake Innitou Thousand Yard Interplanetary Walk | ๐ United States Woburn, Massachusetts |
10,000,000,000 | 0.23 m (bowling ball) | N/A (stone plaque) | 24 m | 932 m (1019 yd) | permanent; walkable (est. 2004); along the sidewalk by Horn Pond. |
| NJ Botanical Garden | ๐ United States Ringwood, New Jersey |
10,000,000,000 | 0.2 m | 2.0 cm | 23.8 m | 927 m | walkable |
| Colorado Scale Model Solar System | ๐ United States Fiske Planetarium, Boulder, Colorado |
10,000,000,000 | 0.1 m | 0.1 cm | 15 m | 600 m | permanent; walkable (est. 1987) |
| Anstruther Model Solar System | ๐ United Kingdom Anstruther, Scotland |
10,000,000,000 | 0.1 m | 0.1 cm | 15 m | 600 m | permanent; walkable (est. 2014) |
| Le Chemin Solaire | ๐ France La Couyรจre, Brittany |
10,000,000,000 | 1 m | 0.1 cm | ? | 450 m | permanent; walkable (est. 2011) |
| Solar Walk UofT Scarborough | ๐ Canada Toronto, Ontario and Eureka, Nunavut |
10,000,000,000 | 0.14 m | 0.13 cm | 15 m | 591 m | permanent; walkable/bikeable (est. 2017) |
| MIT's Infinite Solar System[49][50][51] | ๐ United States Cambridge, Massachusetts |
30,000,000,000 | 4.6 cm | 0.43 mm | 5.0 m | 200 m | permanent; walkable (est. 2018); along "Infinite Corridor" |
| Solar System Lawn Model[52] | ๐ United States Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, California |
105,000,000,000 | 1.32 cm | 0.12 mm | 1.42 m | 56 m | permanent; walkable; engraved in the front sidewalk |
Other models of the Solar System: historic, temporary, virtual, or dual-scale
[edit]| Name | Location | Scale | Sun dia. | Earth dia. | Sun-Earth | Sun-Pluto | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sol Chicago[53][54] | ๐ United States Illinois, Chicago |
1:73,660,000 | 19 m | 17.3 cm | 2,050 m | 61 km (Neptune) | (temporary) proposed |
| Community Solar System Trail[55][56] | ๐ United States Boston, Massachusetts |
1:400,000,000 | 3.5 m | 3.2 cm | 380 m | 15.3 km | permanent; drivable (established in 1997, removed in 2015) |
| Sorghvliet | ๐ Netherlands The Hague, Netherlands |
1:696,000,000 | 2.0 m | 1.8 cm | 215 m | 6.5 km (Neptune) | (temporary) |
| Kirkhill model 1776[a] | ๐ Scotland Scotland |
1:778,268,620.8 | 1.8 m | 1.6 cm | 197 m | - | decayed |
| Planetenpad Utrecht | ๐ Netherlands Utrecht, Netherlands |
1:1,000,000,000 | 1.3 m | 1.3 cm | 150 m | 7.4 km (Neptune) | Leads from Centre Utrecht to Rhijnauwen, on foot, on bike or by kayak |
| Le Chemin des planรจtes | ๐ Switzerland Saint-Luc, Switzerland |
1:1,000,000,000 | 1.4 m | 1.3 cm | 150 m | 5.9 km | uses two different scales for distance and size |
| Planets on the Path | ๐ United States Chicago, Illinois |
1:2,195,000,000 | 457 m | 13.5 miles | (2015, temporary) | ||
| Naas Virtual Solar System | ๐ Republic of Ireland Naas, County Kildare |
1 : 154,557,330 | 9 m | 82 mm | 968 m | 29 km (Neptune) | In Ireland, this instantly recognisable roadside spherical sculpture is well known, and is used as the model for the Sun. The website[57] maps out the planetary orbits and shows everyday objects to scale the planets (e.g. a golf ball for Mars) |
| Eise Eisinga Visvliet[58] | ๐ Netherlands Visvliet, The Netherlands |
1: 870,000,000 | 160 cm | 1.5 cm | 172 m | n/a | Permanent installation honouring Eise Eisinga, the creator of the world famous Planetarium in Franeker, who lived in Visviet in 1700. As the original Planetarium only includes the planets up to Saturn, so does this one. |
| Saskatoon Solar Walk | Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | 1 : 1,275,600,000 | 109 cm | 1 cm | 110 m | 4,500 m | Personal and public art installation created by Roman Rabbitskin in 2023 |
| Planet Walk Malta[1] | ๐ Malta Buฤกibba, Malta |
1:2,956,760,000 (distance) / 695,000,000 (sizes) | 2.0 m | 1.84 cm | 50.60 m | 2.0 km (Neptune) | Leads from Malta Aquarium west along promenade |
| The Madison Planet Stroll[59] | ๐ United States Madison, Wisconsin |
1:4,000,000,000 | 0.3 m | 0.3 cm | 37 m | 1.5 km | (virtual) |
| Solar System Stroll | ๐ Australia Perth, Western Australia |
1:5,000,000,000 | 0.3 m | 0.3 cm | 30 m | 1.2 km | permanent; walkable (est. 2016) |
| The Thousand-Yard Model[60][61] | (virtual) | 1:6,336,000,000 | 0.2 m | 0.2 cm | 25 m | 1 km | The scale of the planets is the same as the scale between them, and the planets are represented by everyday objects; the Earth is a peppercorn, Jupiter is a walnut, and Neptune is a coffee bean. |
| Lafayette Walk | ๐ United States Detroit, Michigan |
1:6,336,000,000 | 23 cm | 0.2 cm | 25 m | 983 m | A walking demonstration of (un)imaginable distances. "It's nowhere near Graham's Number." |
| (dismantled) | ๐ Canada Saint-Louis-du-Ha! Ha!, Quebec |
1:10,000,000,000 | 0.1 m | 0.1 cm | 15 m | 0.6 km | (dismantled) (est. 1985) |
| The Solar System, to scale, for a school yard | PDF for printing | 1:11,945,400,000 | 11.6 cm | 0.1 cm | 12.5 m | 492 m | PDFs, A4 and 8ยฝโณร11โณ, to be printed, affixed to cards which are affixed to sticks; then to be held by children standing in a school yard. Includes major moons and asteroids. |
Several sets of geocaching caches have been laid out as Solar System models.
See also
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- ^ "Naas Solar System". Retrieved 27 July 2023.
- ^ Visvliet, Eise Eisinga. "Eise Eisinga Visvliet โ Visvliet.com" (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 May 2024.
- ^ "Welcome to The Madison Planet Stroll". www.idahostatesman.com/. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
- ^ "The Thousand-Yard Model, or, The Earth as a Peppercorn". www.universalworkshop.com. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
- ^ "The Thousand-Yard Model, or, The Earth as a Peppercorn". noirlab.edu. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Solar System models.
- A list of websites related to Solar System models
- The Otford Solar System
- An accurate web-based scroll map of the Solar System scaled to the Moon being 1 pixel
- An online scale model Archived 5 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine (does not work in some browsers)
- An online 3D model
- An article on the Solar System in Maine Archived 10 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- An article about a temporary exhibit in Melbourne, Australia
- A map with Solar System models in Germany
- A tool to calculate the diameters and distances needed for an accurate scale model
- To Scale: The Solar System - video of model built in desert with Earth as the size of a marble.
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- Use dmy dates from March 2026
- All articles with vague or ambiguous time
- Vague or ambiguous time from July 2025
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- Articles with unsourced statements from January 2020
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