Re: Time Scale for Maping the Sol System...

Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
> The square root of the Earth year, or about 19 days. Won't help Imre
> since the BFM map only covers the Solar system out to Jupiter, though.

	Well, the sad fact of the matter is that the solar system is
	made on two scales, one for the inner planets, one on the outer.

	You will notice this if you look at any to scale diagram
	of the solar system.  The planets out to Mars are generally
	shown on a magnified insert.
e.g.,
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/overview.html

	There is a representative quote from THE SPACE BEYOND
	by John Campbell.

"When the Lord made this system, he used two scales.  Maybe he started
out with one, and didn't like the looks of the dinky little system he
got - planets with diameters measured in thousands of miles, orbits with
diameters measured in millions.   Maybe he threw that scale away, and
decided to start all over with something worth while.  The dust specks
he had, he just forgot, and worked with a scale reading in billions
instead of millions for the orbits, and he used tens of thousands
of miles for planet diameters."