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Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Toilet Paper Solar Systems @airandspace | Uploaded October 2023 | Updated October 2024, 17 minutes ago.
Within our solar system the distances in space are so vast that they can be difficult to imagine. For this demonstration we’ll use a roll of toilet paper to measure out a scale model of the distances of the planets in our solar system.

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This “clip” is part of the STEM in 30 episode: How big is BIG?: The Scale of the Universe : youtu.be/jIu7_SNVmd0

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