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Maine Completes Largest To-Scale Solar System Model

Posted by timothy on from the can't-get-theayah-from-heayah dept.

Neophytus writes "The University of Maine has now almost completed its solar system model, to be unveiled officially on the June 14th at Westfield. The final planet, Uranus, will be set in place on the 13th. At forty miles from Pluto to The Sun and built to a scale of 1:93,000,000, it will be the largest three-dimensional scale model of the Solar System in North America."

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  1. Ithica's is bigger by spooje · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I used to date this girl from Ithaca when I discovered their scale solar system. On their monuments they say the marker for Pluto is in Oahu, Hawaii. Seems to me that would be slightly larger than Maine's model.

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  2. When is the Model by The_Spide · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Presumably because the model is static it is a
    snapshot of the planets orbits at particular
    date (with a repeating interval).

    Has someone predicted when the planets will be
    next be the same as the model?