My son's class came up with the idea of putting up a scaled version of our solar system on their ceiling. This exercise is then used to learn about scale.
I created this simple site to demonstrate how to calculate the actual classroom ceiling distances in meters, given the actual planets' distances from our Sun in astronomical units.
##Demo
Click here!
##License
Copyright (c) 2016, Kang Lu
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