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What If We Shrunk the Solar System to Fit Inside a City?
What would our solar system look like if it fit inside a single city—and could you walk across it in one day? Explore a city-sized scale model to discover the distances between planets and our place in space.
Along the way, investigate Apophis, the asteroid nicknamed the "God of Chaos." How big is it compared with Earth, how close will it pass, and what would it actually take for an asteroid to destroy our planet? Put planetary sizes, orbital distances, and asteroid encounters into perspective.
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