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Day without Art (12/2/05)
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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
- 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)
- The 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
- 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
- Planet Trail HEAVEN on EARTH (Rettenegg-Stuhleck in Eastern Part of Austrian Alps)
- 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
- 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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