B612 scaled one in forty

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This is the iconic asteroid or "planet" from the novel Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I designed this using MATLAB R2016a on a topographical map I create by myself, using some book cover arts as guide. I didn't read the book, so some details may be wrong or may be absent. The baobab trees were created using Customizer, customised from this, and later processed with Windows 3D Builder. I made them as smaller versions of the adult tree, although a 30cm juvenile doesn't look like that. A 2 meter diameter asteroid like this one would blow up in a short bolide if it enters the atmosphere. The model is scaled in five scales: 1:10 , 1:15 , 1:20 , 1:32 (G-scale), 1:40. In the smaller scales the stems of the trees may not be printed; support is always needed for the trees and the glass. The file's names must be read like this: b612_1_x_.stl is 1 : x . So _1_20 is 1:20 or one in twenty. The baobab tree generated with Customizer (left) and its softened and elongated version (right) I spend part of my time making these models, letting them available and free for everyone. If you want to support my work, you can contribute with me here: Other astronomical objects Object Scale [1:x] K = 103 (thousand)M = 106 (million)G = 109 (billion) Image Inner Solar System Mercury 20M, 60M, 120M Venus 60M, 120M, 250M Earth 60M, 120M, 250M Luna 10M, 20M, 60M Mars 20M, 60M, 120M Phobos and Deimos 200K, 500K Artificial Salyut 7 40, 48, 80, 160 Near Earth Asteroids Moshup and Squannit 8K, 20K, 40K Ra-Shalom 20K, 40K Castalia 8K, 20K, 40K Bacchus 8K, 20K Bennu 3K, 8K Ryugu 3K, 8K, 20K Geographos 40K, 80K Phaethon 40K, 80K Itokawa 3K, 8K Eros 80K, 200K, 500K Nereus 3K, 8K Mithra 20K, 40K Golevka 8K Toutatis 40K, 80K Main Asteroid Belt Gaspra 200K Annefrank 40K, 80K Braille 20K, 40K Vesta 2M, 4M, 10M Šteins 40K, 80K, 200K Iris 2M, 4M Hebe 1M, 2M, 4M Lutetia 500K, 1M, 2M Julia 1M, 2M, 4M Mathilde 500K, 1M Juno 2M, 4M Ceres 4M, 10M Pallas 4M, 10M Kleopatra 2M, 4M Ida 500K, 1M