Monday, February 28, 2011
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Anonymous said...
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City of Rocks State Park in New Mexico has plaques set up in the park showing the distance between the Earth and other solar objects. Extends to, iirc, to the nearest star.
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2/28/11, 2:13 PM
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TimO said...
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Another great one in Gainesville, FL that spans a mile from the Sun to Pluto.
http://www.floridastars.org/solarwalk/solarwalk.html
On this scale, the Sun is only 14inches and the Earth is less than 1/4" across -
2/28/11, 2:54 PM
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Anonymous said...
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there is another in Flagstaff Arizona at the Lowell observatory. Pluto is located at the telescope that discovered it.
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3/1/11, 9:03 AM
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