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Putting the solar system on the ground...

posted by [personal profile] sbisson at 11:31pm on 08/06/2003
They've built a scale model of the solar system in Maine...

It's taken 4 years, and a lot of volunteer work, but the final planet goes in place on Friday.

(Found on CNN's site while doing a news browse)
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posted by [identity profile] vicarage.livejournal.com at 03:37pm on 08/06/2003
I rather like the one in Otford in NW Kent.
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posted by (anonymous) at 03:50am on 09/06/2003
Just a thought: Do you think that someone will have to be employed to move the model of Pluto between the models of Uranus and Neptune every so often?
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posted by [identity profile] blufive.livejournal.com at 11:01am on 09/06/2003
There used to be one at the Queen Elizabeth Country Park, near Petersfield in Hampshire. A walk through the woods with planets at appropriate distances from the start. It wasn't quite a true scale model - it looped back on itself so that the finish (pluto) was quite near the start (the Sun), but the distances walked were appropriate. As a nipper, I was there for its opening about 20-odd years ago. I've got no idea if it's still there.
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