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Solar System Missing! (10/17/96)
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Solar System Models
- Broxburn Solar System Model (West Lothian, Scotland) — On roof of high school
- Cleveland Metro Parks Solar System Walk (Cleveland, Ohio, USA) — A part of the Cleveland Metro Parks System
- Colorado Scale Model Solar System (Boulder, Colorado USA) — Located on University of Colorado Campus
- Community Solar System (Boston, Massachusetts USA) — Part of Welcome to the Universe Exhibit at Museum of Science
- Cycle the Solar System (York, England) — Adjacent to York - Selby cycle track near the ancient City of York in the north of England. Sun 2.4 m (abt. 8 ft.) in diameter; Pluto 5.9 mm sphere, over 10 km (more than 6 miles away (York, England)
- Delmar Loop Planet Walk (St. Louis, Missouri, USA) — 1:5 billion scale, 2,880 feet long
- Eugene, Oregon Scale Model Solar System (Eugene, Oregon, USA) — Along the bike path and parks running beside the Willamette River
- Foster Planet Walk (Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA) — Shows scale of orbits on a college campus (but not planets)
- Gainesville Solar Walk (Gainesville, Florida, USA) — Four Billion to one scale model along a 0.9 Mile straight road with large, artistic planet sculptures by Tarpoon Sprints artist Elizabeth Indianos. The Gainesville Solar Walk is a cooperative project of the Alachua Astronomy Club, Inc. and the City of Gainesville, FL
- Lakeview Museum Community Solar System (Peoria, Illinois, USA) — a very large solar walk model
- Lehigh Valley Planet Walk
— See Dr. Ernest F. Andrews Memorial Planet Walk below
- Madison Planet Stroll (Madison, Wisconsin, USA) — Take a Solar System stroll down Madison's famous State Street from the University of Wisconsin Campus to the State Capital
- Maine Solar System Model (Presque to Houlton, Maine, USA) — A forty-mile, 3-D model
- Melbourne Solar System (Melbourne, Australia) — 1:1 billion scale model stretching along Melbourne bayside from Sun by St Kilda Marina to Pluto, 5.9 km away beyond Port Melbourne (Melbouorne, Australia)
- Millenium Project of North Georgia Astronomers (Gainesville, Georgia) — A permanent, true scale model and walking tour of our solar system by the North Georgia Astronomers
- Otford Solar System Walk (Otford in Kent, England) — Scale is 1:4,595,700,000. with Sun's diameter 1,392,530 km (map)
- PCIS Solar System Walk (Phenix City, Alabama, USA) — A 407 foot solar system walk the Phenix City Intermediate School campus
- Planet Walk (Norwich, Vermont) — 1.6 mile walk (Montshire Museum of Science, Vermont)
- Planet Walk Zürich (Zürich, Switzerland) — 1:1 billion scale. Each meter along the Planet Trail from Uetliberg to Felsenegg corresponds to one million kilometers (Zurich, Switzerland)
- Pluto Walk at Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Arizona, USA) — A walk to the historic Lowell Observatory 13-inch Pluto Dome
- Rev. Dr. Ernest F. Andrews Memorial Planet Walk (a.k.a. Lehigh Valley Planet Walk, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA) — Another large model, extending 3,676 feet through Little Lehigh Parkway
- Sagan Planet Walk (Ithaca, New York, USA) — A memorial to Carl Sagan constructed by the Sciencenter of Ithaca
- Solar System Perspective Project (Web Based) — True to scale solar system model displayed as a web page (on 72 dpi monitor just over half a mi, wide, making it possibly one of the largest pages on the web!). Part of the The Solar System Perspective Project
- Sweden Solar System (Stockholm, Sweden) — A large models with a scale of 1:20 million (Sun in Stockholm & Pluto in Delsbo)
- Traverse Bay Community Solar System (Traverse City, MI, USA)
- Voyage: A Journey Through Our Solar System (Washington, D.C.) — A Scale Model of the Solar System on the National Mall. See also AAS Abstract of proposed model (March 1995)
Read "Tours of Model Solar Systems" by a University of Illinois professor. Included are Peoria, Boston Museum of Science, and Sweden.
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Other links about solar system scale models:
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