how far does the solar systm go? and who made it and why?

Answer 1

Since the diameter of the sun is 864,000 miles and the diameter of a typical basketball is about 9½ inches (they vary from 9¼ to 9½ inches), if we divide 864,000 miles by 9½ inches, we discover that in our model 1 inch represents roughly 91,000 miles. To see how everything else fits into our model we need only divide any other dimensions of our solar system by 91,000. For example, Mercury, on the average, is about 36,250,000 miles from the sun. If we divide 36,250,000 by 91,000 we find that in our model it is roughly 398 inches-or about 33 feet away from the basketball. And, if we divide Mercury' s diameter of 3050 miles by 91,000, we find that the Mercury in our model is just .034 inches wide-about 1/30 inch. This is smaller than a typical BB.

If you know your stride (mine is about 2½ feet) you can put the basketball on the ground and pace this off. Better yet, if you have access to a football field at a local high school or college, place a basketball on one of the goal lines and walk out to the 11 yard line. This is where Mercury is.

Scientists believe that the solar system was formed when a cloud of gas and dust in space was disturbed, maybe by the explosion of a nearby star (called a supernova). This explosion made waves in space which squeezed the cloud of gas and dust. Squeezing made the cloud start to collapse, as gravity pulled the gas and dust together, forming a solar nebula. Just like a dancer that spins faster as she pulls in her arms, the cloud began to spin as it collapsed. Eventually, the cloud grew hotter and denser in the center, with a disk of gas and dust surrounding it that was hot in the center but cool at the edges. As the disk got thinner and thinner, particles began to stick together and form clumps. Some clumps got bigger, as particles and small clumps stuck to them, eventually forming planets or moons . Near the center of the cloud, where planets like Earth formed, only rocky material could stand the great heat. Icy matter settled in the outer regions of the disk along with rocky material, where the giant planets like Jupiter formed. As the cloud continued to fall in, the center eventually got so hot that it became a star, the Sun, and blew most of the gas and dust of the new solar system with a strong stellar wind. By studying meteorites, which are thought to be left over from this early phase of the solar system, scientists have found that the solar system is about 4,600 million years old!

Answer 2

The last world propagated by the Flat Earth Society holds that humans live on a disc, with the North Pole at its center and a 150-foot (50 meter) high wall of ice at the outer edge. The resulting map resembles the symbol of the United Nations, something Johnson used as evidence for his position. In this , the sun and moon are each a mere 32 miles (52 km) in diameter.

The modern flat earth movement was originated by an eccentric English inventor, Samuel Birley Rowbotham (1816-1884), who inspired by his religious convictions that certain passages in the Bible are meant to be taken literally, he published a 16-page pamphlet, which he later expanded into a 430 page book expounding his views. According to Rowbotham's system, which he called Zetetic Astronomy, the earth is a flat disk centered at the North Pole and bounded along its southern edge by a wall of ice, with the sun, moon, planets, and stars only a few hundred miles above the surface of the earth

Answer 3

There is more than one solar system. Our solar system is too large to measure in the conventional way, and if we could measure it I am not sure where the cut off point would be.

Answer 4

a kagillion miles to the kagillianth power times infinity plus 1

Answer 5

I don't know but I'm dying to find out. I hope they find out something big before I die. Space fascinates me. We can't even fathom the size or the extent of it. We don't even know what else is out there. Mind Boggling.

Answer 6

Its not specific as of todate but it extends several light-years. It resulted from the big bang.