Description
| Product ID: | 9781615197774 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CN |
| Title: | The Planets Are Very, Very, Very, Far Away |
| Authors: | Author: Mike Vago |
| Page Count: | 56 |
| Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage general interest: Space, stars and the solar system, Space (Children's / Teenage) |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The amazing scale of the solar system unfolds before your eyes 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 . . . |
| Imprint Name: | The Experiment LLC |
| Publisher Name: | The Experiment LLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-03-01 |
