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Solar system comeback (2/28/02)
Stargazing Permitted (12/17/99)
Royal Park Theater Lobby,
also by artist E. Indianos
Fundraiser Seeks Stargazers (3/19/99)
Solar System Missing! (10/17/96)
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Solar System Models
Broxburn Solar System Model — On roof of high school (West Lothian, Scotland)
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 — 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)
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
Lakeview Museum Community Solar System (Peoria, Illinois, USA) — claims largest in world
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 — 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 (in Kent) Solar System Walk — 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 — 1.6 mile walk (Montshire Museum of Science, Vermont)
Planet Walk Zurich — 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 (aka 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 (Near Uppsala, Sweden)
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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