Sweden Solar System

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The Ericsson Globe represents the sun. The rest of the solar system is scattered in, and north of, Stockholm.

The Sweden Solar System is the world's largest scale model of the solar system. The sun is represented by the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, the largest hemispherical building in the world. The inner planets can also be found in Stockholm but the outer planets are situated northward in other cities along the Baltic Sea.

These are the locations of the planet and object models throughout Sweden:

• The Sun, Ericsson Globe (Globen), the largest hemispherical building in the world, 110 m in diameter (incl. the corona).

The inner planets

• Mercury, Stockholm City Museum, 25 cm in diameter, 2900 m from the Globe.
• Venus, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), 62 cm in diameter, 5500 m from the Globe, inaugurated June 8, 2004. There is also a model of Venus located at the Observatory Museum.
• The Earth, Cosmonova (The Natural Historical State Museum), 65 cm in diameter, 7600 m from the Globe. There is an elaborate model of the Moon, 18 cm in diameter, located at NHSM near the Cosmonova.
• Eros, an asteroid, at Mörbyskolan school in Danderyd 11 km from the Globe. It was created as a Valentine's Day project in gold, modeled after Eros the god of love. The dimensions are 2 × 0.7 × 0.7 mm (0.98 mm³).
• Mars, Mörby centrum, a shopping centre just northeast of the city centre, 35 cm in diameter, 11.6 km from the Globe.

The outer planets

• Jupiter, at the large city airport Arlanda, made as a flower decoration at the roundabout near Sky City, 7.3 m in diameter, 40 km from the Globe.
• 5025 PL, in a park in Alsike, Knivsta Municipality. The park contains Erik Ståhl's monumental cosmic sculptures. It's not a sculpture but a dot on the SSS map, 0.2 mm, 60 km from the Globe.
• Saturn, a mat with a picture of Saturn, 6.1 m in diameter, placed outside the old observatory of Anders Celsius in central Uppsala, 73 km from the Globe. Inauguration date June 13, 2009.^[1] Several schools in Uppsala are to provide moons of Saturn: the first completed was Enceladus at Kvarngärdesskolan (diameter 2.5 cm).^[2]
• Uranus, The Furuviks Park in Gävle, close to the "Uruviks Park", telling about the Hedenhös-children, 2.6 m in diameter, 143 km from the Globe.
• Neptune, in Söderhamn, is made of acrylic and at night shines with a blue light, 2.5 m in diameter, 229 km from the Globe.
• Dwarf planet Pluto and its moon Charon, near the Dellen lake in Delsbo, formed by a meteorite impact 90 million years ago. The sculpture includes a rare mineral called dellenite formed by the impact. It's 12 cm in diameter and 300 km from the Globe.

Asteroids and planetoids "outside" the solar system

• Ixion, Technichus, Härnösand, formed as an orb in a hand with the arm, 6.5 cm, 360 km from the Globe.
• Comet Swift-Tuttle, Kreativum in Karlshamn. The orbit is special, closest to the Globe in the inner Stockholm and farthest in Karlshamn, Blekinge, 390 km from the Globe
• Sedna, a trans-neptunian object, located in Teknikens hus in Luleå, 912 km from the Globe.
• The Terminal Shock, the farthest point the gas from the sun reaches. It is belain in the thin air and it's made a so-called shock front. This strange phenomenon has no sculpture, but a foundation for a future sculpture. It is 950 km from the Globe, in Kiruna, above the Arctic Circle.

[edit] External links

• Sweden Solar System Official Homepage

[edit] References

1. ^ Press release, linked 2009-06-08.
2. ^ List of moons of Saturn assigned to schools in Uppsala (in Swedish).