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There is a 1:1 billion scale planet path along the Rhine in Bonn. It makes for a nice Sunday walk (six kilometers from the Sun to Pluto), traversing pretty much
by arrrg 13y ago
There is a 1:1 billion scale planet path along the Rhine in Bonn. It makes for a nice Sunday walk (six kilometers from the Sun to Pluto), traversing pretty much the entire city.
It seems many other places in central Europe have similar scale models of the solar system, though I’m not sure how common those are in North America.
- lifeformed 13y agoHow big is the Sun model on that walk?
- ColinWright 13y agoJust over a metre, slightly smaller than the one on St Kilda beach in Melbourne.
- PhasmaFelis 13y agoI've heard of at least one in the northeast US. It stretches for some distance along a highway, IIRC. A local water tower was painted as the Sun, and the planets and distances are scaled accordingly.
- mturmon 13y agoThe Sagan walk (he used to teach at Cornell) in Ithaca, NY, is pretty well-known: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_Planet_Walk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_Planet_Walk
- adav 13y agoThere's also one of these solar system walks just outside York, UK, if anyone's interested.
- 64598u3wieodsk 13y agoThat sounds wonderful. I am living in Bonn right now, just off the river bank. Might as well use the good weather and explore the path tomorrow :)