Asense of proportion: saturn is about 60,000 km in radius, and its rings are only about 0.01 km thick with ripples 100 m high. design a really big model with saturn 60 inches in radius (10 feet in diameter). how thick must the rings be in your model and how high can the ripples be?

Step-by-step explanation:

We need a scale factor to go from the real sizes to the model sizes. We will use r for radius, t for thickness and h for ripple height.

Our scale factor is a number S that must convert a real size (R) to a model size (M), for example with the radius:

But since we know both radius we can calculate it as:

And then we can calculate our final sizes for the model (writing 100m as 0.1Km).

answer: no

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