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Here is our final project for this year's astronomy study! In case you miss it, the scale used is 3.6 million miles = 1 yard. That gives us a sun the size of a play ball and planets ranging in size from large turbinado sugar crystals to shooter marbles...all stretched out a little over 1/2 a mile! Our solar system is equivalent to a play ball, 3 large turbinado sugar crystals, 2 red hots candy pieces, a pinch of salt, 2 pinto beans, and two shooter marbles spread out over a square mile... How amazing it was to span the distance with our tiny objects...and to think that it all is one small microscopic speck compared to the rest of the universe! Try this on for "size"...using the same scale, the nearest star would be 6.86 million miles away...that's 275.5 trips around Earth's equator...over 14 trips to the moon and back...1/10th the distance to Venus...two play balls that far apart? What an amazing Creator God who cares for and sustains all of his creation! Breathtaking awe! Music credit goes to: The Autumn Film "Follow the Sound" Page CXVI "How Great Thou Art" Same band...two different projects! :)