I'm trying to make a scale model of the solar system, hoping to go out and find some appropriate spheres but I'm curious if anyone has some good ideas about places/ways to get really small orbs of various diameters
With the sun I'll be using I'm looking for spheres with diameters in the range of 0.75mm - 22mm (basically 1/32" - 1") - any ideas?
(You are definitely allowed to make joke answers even though I put 'serious' in the title)
I've gotten styrofoam spheres for a similar project from a craft store before. They're easy to work with, paint, and they won't shatter if you drop them.
If you're trying to make the planets scaled correctly to each other though, you're gonna some reeeeeeally small ones and some reeeeeeally big ones, lmao.
Naw there's not really that big a difference in scale between planets, like maybe a factor of 25 between between Mercury and Jupiter. Ultimately they're all going to be small because I'm using a 10-pin bowling ball for the sun