Amazing ! But shouldn’t they exclude Pluto ? I thought it was no longer considered a planet ?
Besides, it would be nice if they could make a difference (longer notes ?) for larger planets like Jupiter….
Johan, if you are complaining about Pluto’s inclusion, why do you have no issue with them including Ceres in the music box? That has never been a planet.
Well, Ceres was considered a planet for some of the 19th century; then it was demoted to “asteroid.” Now it’s considered a dwarf planet, like Pluto, Eris, Makemake and Haumea. I only know this because I have a five-year-old space nut.
I made a replica of this in Excel. It’s actually pretty cool. It’s an animated chart with MIDI for the sounds. I just did the 8 real planets and left off the 2 planetoids. I called mine solarsong:
this is great, i’m 15 and do astronomy gcse and have already covered the solar system in our course, but this is really cool and i’m gonna tery and show my teacher and i think she too will be entranced by the simplicity… genius
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This is wonderful!
I had a friend send this to me just a few days ago. I was entranced.
This was amazing. ^.^
I love so simple and I love the choice of color!
I’m waiting for Neptune to strike.
Amazing ! But shouldn’t they exclude Pluto ? I thought it was no longer considered a planet ?
Besides, it would be nice if they could make a difference (longer notes ?) for larger planets like Jupiter….
Pluto is occasionally closer to the Sun than Neptune.
@ Johan Van Loon: But it’s still a part of the Solar System. Perhaps SolarBeat 2.0 should include the other dwarf planets.
Extraordinario, interesante y creativo!
Johan, if you are complaining about Pluto’s inclusion, why do you have no issue with them including Ceres in the music box? That has never been a planet.
Well, Ceres was considered a planet for some of the 19th century; then it was demoted to “asteroid.” Now it’s considered a dwarf planet, like Pluto, Eris, Makemake and Haumea. I only know this because I have a five-year-old space nut.
This is just insanely brilliant.
So, what is the beauty of a minimum font size, you are not able to zoom?
can’t see it. nice ideas anyway :-)
This is beautiful, such an interesting way to illustrate the solar system. Good work!
That’s a charming illustration of the theorie of “Music of the spheres”, which concept comes from Pythagoras, 26 centuries ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis
Merci !
Hello.
I made a replica of this in Excel. It’s actually pretty cool. It’s an animated chart with MIDI for the sounds. I just did the 8 real planets and left off the 2 planetoids. I called mine solarsong:
http://www.excelhero.com/blog/2010/05/excel-animated-chart.html
Regards,
Daniel Ferry
excelhero.com
this is great, i’m 15 and do astronomy gcse and have already covered the solar system in our course, but this is really cool and i’m gonna tery and show my teacher and i think she too will be entranced by the simplicity… genius
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