Sweden Solar System
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The Sweden Solar System is the world's largest scale model of the solar system. The sun is represented by the Globe Arena 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, Stockholm Globe Arena (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 the Danderyd school in Mörby 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, not inaugurated. It is planned to build a planetarium with the model including rings as the roof. The planetarium will be built close to the Ångström laboratory in Uppsala. It will be 6.1 m in diameter and 73 km from the Globe.
- 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 planets Pluto and Charon, near the Dellen sea in Delsbo, formed by a meteorite impact 90 million years ago. The sculpture is planted in a special metal which came from 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, the new planet, 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.
