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Sweden Solar System

Index Sweden Solar System

The Sweden Solar System is the world's largest permanent scale model of the Solar System. [1]

92 relations: Alsike, Sweden, Anders Celsius, Arctic Circle, Asteroid, Åva gymnasium, Balthazar Science Center, Baltic Sea, Charon (moon), Comet, Comet Swift–Tuttle, Copper, Corona, Cosmonova, Danderyd Municipality, Daniel Oberti, Death, Dellen, Delsbo, Dwarf planet, Earth, Enceladus, Ericsson Globe, Eris (dwarf planet), Eris (mythology), Eros, Finns, Fishing, Gösta Gahm, Gold, Halley's Comet, Härnösand, Heliosphere, International Year of Astronomy, Jupiter, Karlshamn, Kiruna, Knivsta Municipality, Kreativum, Lövstabruk, Luleå, Mars, Märsta, Meanings of minor planet names: 36001–37000, Mercury (planet), Meteorite, Moon, Natural satellite, Near-Earth object, Neptune, Neptune (mythology), ..., Nine Views, Palomar–Leiden survey, Peter Várhelyi, Planet, Plutino, Pluto, Pluto (mythology), Roundabout, Royal Institute of Technology, Sailing, Saltsjöbaden, Saturn, Söderhamn, Sigtuna Municipality, Skövde, Solar System, Solar System model, Solar wind, Somerset Space Walk, Stockholm, Stockholm Arlanda Airport, Stockholm City Museum, Stockholm Observatory, Sun, Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Täby, Technichus, Teknikens Hus, Trans-Neptunian object, Transit of Venus, Umeå, United States, Uppsala, Uranus, Valentine's Day, Vandalism, Venus, 28978 Ixion, 4 Vesta, 433 Eros, 90377 Sedna. Expand index (42 more) »

Alsike, Sweden

Alsike is a locality situated in Knivsta Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 2,681 inhabitants in 2010.

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Anders Celsius

Anders Celsius (27 November 170125 April 1744) was a Swedish astronomer, physicist and mathematician.

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Arctic Circle

The Arctic Circle is the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth.

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Asteroid

Asteroids are minor planets, especially those of the inner Solar System.

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Åva gymnasium

Åva Gymnasium is a public secondary school located in Täby, Sweden, a suburb to the north of the capital, Stockholm.

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Balthazar Science Center

Balthazar Science Center is a Swedish science center located at Skövde.

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Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany and the North and Central European Plain.

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Charon (moon)

Charon, also known as (134340) Pluto I, is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto.

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Comet

A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases, a process called outgassing.

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Comet Swift–Tuttle

Comet Swift–Tuttle (formally designated 109P/Swift–Tuttle) is a periodic comet with a current (osculating) orbital period of 133 years.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Corona

A corona (Latin, 'crown') is an aura of plasma that surrounds the Sun and other stars.

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Cosmonova

Cosmonova is an IMAX venue in Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden.

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Danderyd Municipality

Danderyd Municipality (Danderyds kommun) is a municipality north of Stockholm in Stockholm County in east central Sweden.

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Daniel Oberti

Daniel Oberti (1945–2009) was an American artist, sculptor, teacher, lecturer, mentor and creative community activist.

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Death

Death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

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Dellen

Dellen is a lake system in the province of Hälsingland, Sweden.

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Delsbo

Delsbo is a locality in Hudiksvall Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden, with 2,192 inhabitants in 2010.

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Dwarf planet

A dwarf planet is a planetary-mass object that is neither a planet nor a natural satellite.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Enceladus

Enceladus is the sixth-largest moon of Saturn.

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Ericsson Globe

Ericsson Globe (originally known as Stockholm Globe Arena, commonly referred to in Swedish simply as Globen (The Globe) is an indoor arena located in Stockholm Globe City, Johanneshov district of Stockholm, Sweden. The Ericsson Globe is the largest hemispherical building on Earth and took two and a half years to build. Shaped like a large white ball, it has a diameter of 110 meters (361 feet) and an inner height of 85 meters (279 feet). The volume of the building is 605,000 cubic meters (21,188,800 cubic feet). It has a seating capacity of 16,000 spectators for shows and concerts, and 13,850 for ice hockey. It represents the Sun in the Sweden Solar System, the world's largest scale model of the Solar System.

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Eris (dwarf planet)

Eris (minor-planet designation 136199 Eris) is the most massive and second-largest (by volume) dwarf planet in the known Solar System.

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Eris (mythology)

Eris (Ἔρις, "Strife") is the Greek goddess of strife and discord.

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Eros

In Greek mythology, Eros (Ἔρως, "Desire") was the Greek god of sexual attraction.

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Finns

Finns or Finnish people (suomalaiset) are a Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Gösta Gahm

Gösta Fredrik Gahm (born 7 July 1942) is a Swedish astronomer.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.

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Halley's Comet

Halley's Comet or Comet Halley, officially designated 1P/Halley, is a short-period comet visible from Earth every 74–79 years.

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Härnösand

Härnösand is a locality and the seat of Härnösand Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 17,556 inhabitants in 2010.

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Heliosphere

The heliosphere is the bubble-like region of space dominated by the Sun, which extends far beyond the orbit of Pluto.

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International Year of Astronomy

The International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009) was a year-long celebration of astronomy that took place in 2009 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a telescope by Galileo Galilei and the publication of Johannes Kepler's Astronomia nova in the 17th century.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Karlshamn

Karlshamn is a locality and the seat of Karlshamn Municipality in Blekinge County, Sweden.

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Kiruna

Kiruna (Northern Sami: Giron, Finnish: Kiiruna) is the northernmost town in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland.

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Knivsta Municipality

Knivsta Municipality (Knivsta kommun) is a municipality in Uppsala County in east central Sweden.

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Kreativum

Kreativum is a science center located at Karlshamn, at the southern part of Sweden.

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Lövstabruk

Lövstabruk is a village on a common in the parish of Österlövsta, Tierp Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden.

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Luleå

Luleå (Westrobothnian: Lul, Leul, or Leol; Luleju) is a city on the coast of northern Sweden, and the capital of Norrbotten County, the northernmost county in Sweden.

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Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System after Mercury.

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Märsta

Märsta is a suburb of Metropolitan Stockholm, a locality and the seat of Sigtuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 27,034 inhabitants in 2015.

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Meanings of minor planet names: 36001–37000

169 | 36169 Grosseteste || || Robert Grosseteste, an English statesman, natural philosopher and theologian.

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Mercury (planet)

Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System.

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Meteorite

A meteorite is a solid piece of debris from an object, such as a comet, asteroid, or meteoroid, that originates in outer space and survives its passage through the atmosphere to reach the surface of a planet or moon.

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Moon

The Moon is an astronomical body that orbits planet Earth and is Earth's only permanent natural satellite.

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Natural satellite

A natural satellite or moon is, in the most common usage, an astronomical body that orbits a planet or minor planet (or sometimes another small Solar System body).

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Near-Earth object

A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body whose orbit can bring it into proximity with Earth.

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Neptune

Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System.

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Neptune (mythology)

Neptune (Neptūnus) was the god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion.

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Nine Views

Nine Views (Devet pogleda) is an ambiental installation in Zagreb, Croatia which, together with the sculpture Prizemljeno Sunce (The Grounded Sun), makes up a consistent model of the Solar System.

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Palomar–Leiden survey

The Palomar–Leiden survey (PLS) was a successful astronomical survey to study faint minor planets in a collaboration between the U.S Palomar Observatory and the Dutch Leiden Observatory, and resulted in the discovery of thousands of asteroids, including many Jupiter trojans.

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Peter Várhelyi

Péter Várhelyi (born April 15, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1970s.

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Planet

A planet is an astronomical body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planetesimals.

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Plutino

In astronomy, the plutinos are a dynamical group of trans-Neptunian objects in the outermost region of the Solar System that orbit in 2:3 mean-motion resonance with Neptune.

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Pluto

Pluto (minor planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of bodies beyond Neptune.

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Pluto (mythology)

Pluto (Latin: Plūtō; Πλούτων) was the ruler of the underworld in classical mythology.

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Roundabout

A roundabout, also called a traffic circle, road circle, rotary, rotunda or island, is a type of circular intersection or junction in which road traffic flows almost continuously in one direction around a central island.

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Royal Institute of Technology

KTH Royal Institute of Technology (KTH; Kungliga Tekniska högskolan) is a university in Stockholm, Sweden, specialized in Engineering and Technology, it ranks highest in northern mainland Europe in its academic fields.

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Sailing

Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the water (sailing ship, sailboat, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ice (iceboat) or on land (land yacht) over a chosen course, which is often part of a larger plan of navigation.

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Saltsjöbaden

Saltsjöbaden is a locality in Nacka Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 9,491 inhabitants in 2010.

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Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.

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Söderhamn

Söderhamn is a locality and the seat of Söderhamn Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden with 11,761 inhabitants in 2010.

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Sigtuna Municipality

Sigtuna Municipality (Sigtuna kommun) is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden.

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Skövde

Skövde (pronunciation) is a locality and urban centre in Skövde Municipality and Västra Götaland County, in the Västergötland (Western Gothland region) in central Southern Sweden.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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Solar System model

Solar System models, especially mechanical models, called orreries, that illustrate the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the Solar System have been built for centuries.

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Solar wind

The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona.

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Somerset Space Walk

The Somerset Space Walk is a sculpture trail model of the Solar System, located in Somerset, England.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Stockholm Arlanda Airport

Stockholm Arlanda Airport, is an international airport located in the Sigtuna Municipality of Sweden, near the town of Märsta, north of Stockholm and nearly south-east of Uppsala.

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Stockholm City Museum

The Stockholm City Museum (Stadsmuseet i Stockholm) is a museum documenting, preserving and exhibiting the history of Stockholm.

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Stockholm Observatory

The Stockholm Observatory (Stockholms observatorium, 050) is an astronomical observatory and institution in Stockholm, Sweden, founded in the 18th century and today part of Stockholm University.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Swedish Institute of Space Physics

The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (Institutet för rymdfysik, IRF) is a Swedish government agency.

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Swedish Museum of Natural History

The Swedish Royal Museum of Natural History (Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, literally, the National Museum of Natural History), in Stockholm, is one of two major museums of natural history in Sweden, the other one being located in Gothenburg.

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Täby

Täby was a trimunicipal locality and the seat of Täby Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, with 66,292 inhabitants in 2013.

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Technichus

Technichus is a science center located at Härnösand, a historical city in Sweden.

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Teknikens Hus

Teknikens Hus or The Technology House is a Swedish science center located on Porsön in Luleå.

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Trans-Neptunian object

A trans-Neptunian object (TNO, also written transneptunian object) is any minor planet in the Solar System that orbits the Sun at a greater average distance (semi-major axis) than Neptune, 30 astronomical units (AU).

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Transit of Venus

A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and a superior planet, becoming visible against (and hence obscuring a small portion of) the solar disk.

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Umeå

Umeå (South Westrobothnian; Uumaja, Ume Sami: Ubmeje, Upmeje, Ubmi) is a city in north east Sweden.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Uppsala

Uppsala (older spelling Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest city of Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

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Uranus

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun.

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Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14.

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Vandalism

Vandalism is an "action involving deliberate destruction of or damage to public or private property".

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Venus

Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days.

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28978 Ixion

28978 Ixion, provisional designation, is a plutino (an object that has a 2:3 orbital resonance with Neptune).

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4 Vesta

Vesta, minor-planet designation 4 Vesta, is one of the largest objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of.

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433 Eros

433 Eros, provisional designation, is a stony and elongated asteroid of the Amor group and the first discovered and second-largest near-Earth object with a mean-diameter of approximately 16.8 kilometers.

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90377 Sedna

90377 Sedna is a large minor planet in the outer reaches of the Solar System that was,, at a distance of about 86 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun, about three times as far as Neptune.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System

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