# The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System - Hardcover

by **Mike Vago** (Author)

**The solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)!**

Quick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!

It's not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a place mat, or a lunch box, or into an ordinary book. But that familiar diagram is wrong about almost everything--and so this is no ordinary book. Seven double-gatefold pages open out not once but _twice_, capturing our planetary neighbors at scale.

At a 100,000,000,000-to-1 scale, the Sun is about the size of a dime. And five feet away from the Sun, we find . . . Earth, the size of a pinhead. A _hundred_\-billion-to-one scale is not nearly small enough to fit our solar system into a book (or onto a soccer field)! How small do we need to go? Unfold the next three spreads to find out . . .

**Number of Pages:** 54

**Dimensions:** 0.47 x 6.06 x 10.08 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** October 18, 2022

## Details

- **Price:** 16.95 USD
- **Vendor:** Books by splitShops
- **Type:** Books
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