Scaled-down Solar System

This map shows our Solar System if it was reduced in size so that the Sun was only 1km across in the centre of Wellington.

Rights: The University of Waikato Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato

Published: 1 April 2009Size: 149.29 KB

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