Jupiter is a block and a half from the Sun, and the size of a grape.
- 457.3 ft
- Distance
- 2.50 cm
- Diameter
- 43:17
- Light
Nine cast plaques · Sun through Neptune
Put the Sun where you stand.
Every planet at its true distance, along your park path, your street, or your state. Walk thirty feet and you are standing at Earth. Keep going and Neptune waits at the end of the trail.
Cast bronze $1,995 · acrylic $1,000 · engraved to order
Engraved for your ground
Your place, on every plaque.
Type the name of your park, school, street, or town. Every plaque on this page carries it, the way yours will.
Up to 26 letters · engraved above the planet's name
The science · felt, not told
This next stretch of page is the model itself. Pick where to set it, then scroll it the way you would walk it: down a street, across a park, along a school hallway, down the National Mall, or over a whole county.
Sun to Neptune: 927 ft, park gate to the lookout
You are at the Sun
0FT FROM THE SUN
Sunlight reaches this point in 0s
The Sun plaque at this scale
Where it lives
One set. Any ground you can walk.
The same nine plaques, engraved to one measurement you choose. Measure a block and the planets fit your street. Measure a highway and they cross a state.
Saturn waits at the far end of Main Street, the size of an orange.
- 0.638 mi
- Distance
- 8.34 cm
- Diameter
- 1:19:42
- Light
Mars is a quarter mile in. Neptune is where the trail ends.
- 1,339 ft
- Distance
- 1.21 cm
- Diameter
- 12:40
- Light
Neptune is a day's drive away, and wider than your car. Light still needs four hours.
- 300.0 mi
- Distance
- 528.9 cm
- Diameter
- 4:09:54
- Light
The collection
The set of nine
Sun through Neptune, sold as one set. Each carries its scaled distance, its scaled diameter, and the real time light takes to reach it. Shown at park scale; yours are engraved from your own measurement.
5 x 4 in each · four countersunk holes · wall, post, stake, or stone
Your set
Nine plaques. One measurement.
Tell us how far apart your Sun and your Neptune will stand. We compute every figure, engrave your place name on all nine, and ship the set ready to mount.
Cast bronze$1,995
Engraved brass$1,995
Acrylic, indoors$1,000
Preview your set
Engraved to order · set of nine
- Schools
- Parks and trails
- Main streets
- Backyards
- Gifts