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ASTR 1101-001Spring 2008 Joel E. Tohline, Alumni Professor 247 Nicholson Hall [Slides from Lecture04] Assignment: “Construct” Scale Model of the Solar System Sun is a basketball. Place basketball in front of Mike the Tiger’s habitat. Walk to Earth’s distance, turn around and take a picture of the basketball (sun). Walk to Jupiter’s distance, take picture of sun. Walk to Neptune’s distance, take picture of sun. Assemble all images, along with explanations, into a PDF document. How far away is our nearest neighbor basketball? What about the Dime? Information on Planets[Drawn principally from