Putting the solar system on the ground...

[sbisson]

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)

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

I rather like the one in Otford in NW Kent.

Pluto

[(Anonymous)]

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?

[blufive.livejournal.com]

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.