How Big is the Solar System? (Football Field Model)

How big is the solar system? We head to Carson-Newman University and create a scale model of the entire solar system starting with a soccer ball sun. If the sun were a soccer ball, how big would the earth be, and how far away? What about the biggest planet, Jupiter, or the furthest planet, Pluto (yes, Pluto is a planet!)?

Today, we're mapping out the sun and all eight planets on a college campus to visualize their size and distances.

Video Timestamps:
00:00 - How Big is the Solar System?
01:22 - If the sun were a soccer ball...
01:59 - Mercury
02:29 - Venus
02:42 - Earth
03:31 - Mars
04:16 - Jupiter
04:38 - Saturn
04:57 - Uranus
05:16 - Neptune
05:45 - Pluto
06:55 - Visiting the Planets

Credits:
Written and Edited: Jared Belcher
2D Animation: Jared Belcher
Filmed: Tanner Burleson and Andrew Belcher
Original Theme Music: Branded.
Episode Music: "Always" by Utah
Special Thanks: Carson-Newman University

[edl]

The absolute best part of these models is walking faster than the speed of light.

[raymondhartmeijer]

It's amazing that these planets are all so tiny in the middle of the vast space, but what amazes me more is the gravitational pull the Sun has on these far away objects

[jaliyahwalker]

Mercury: 10 yards away
Venus: 19 yards away
Earth: 26 yards away
Mars: 40 yards away
Jupiter: 134 yards away
Saturn: 247 yards away
Uranus: 497 yards away
Neptune 777 years away
Pluto: 1054 yards away

[NewFalconerRecords]

This video has a ridiculously low amount of views. It's absolutely brilliant.

[אילעובד-עד]

one of the best video i ever see in youtube

[axel]

so if earth is our favorite planet then why are we so eager trying to destroy it?

[rickypickles]

I love the movie "The Martian." Our hero is stuck alone on Mars with only disco music. This is fun but not realistic because, even today, we could easily take all our books, movies, tv shows, and music in digital format using very little of our total payload.

[jaja]

A mathematician did use an American soccer pitch and put all the 8 planets on it. The Sun would be on the touch line slightly larger than a golf ball and the 4 planets wouldn’t be bigger than the bearings in a ball point pen 5, 10, 15, and 20 yards from it roughly. Then pretty much equally spread the rest out with Neptune being at the other touch line. Jupiter would be roughly a garden pea. Roughly 😳

[Jellyman]

It’s even crazier to think about the other planets beyond Pluto, like Eris or Sedna. They’re out there! 🤯

[charlesbost]

great video, showing it to my 3rd graders today

[nuotheth]

I did a fun scale thing like this with the video game Halo.

If Halo were the size of a cheerio, its effective blast radius would reach Saturn.

[ILaunchNukes]

Fun fact: The closest star to the sun at this scale would be 4083 miles away.

[FewVidsJustComments]

So I made my own scale set using household objects, and calculated how far away everything would be. Long story short, if the sun the size of a typical flat ceiling light fixtur, (13.5 inches in my case) earth, (which would be the size of a small bead), would only be 122 feet from the sun, but Pluto would be almost a mile away. And to think that most of that is just empty space… that just blows my mind 🤯

[RyebertandWhiskey]

I remember seeing Mark Robers video 3 years before this one on which did the exact same scale and focus on planet 9, which would be a pea 17.5 miles away

[JBG]

It’s really really big but was generally considered a bad idea .

[tommybass]

Nice video! Thanks. And also for mentioning Pluto🥺

[joshuaburba]

I love these kinds of videos. As a former astronomy teacher, I LOVE this stuff.

It's obvious you ripped off Mark Rober's video, using almost the exact same props as well as a football field, but it was still very well done and enjoyable to watch.

[whysoserious]

Bro wanna see distance between earth and Sirius Betelgeuse Uy scuti, and Antarus And Huge Stars by this model Pls ❤

[nothngspermanent]

what crazy is when that football will burst in 4 billion years it will devour all the inner planets

[VexThePlanet]

Is this based off of Mark Rober's Scale of The Solar System VIdeo?