Peoria Scale Model of the Solar System
The world's fourth-largest scale model of the planets
Category Miniatures, Small Worlds and Model Towns, Instruments of Science, Marvelous Maps and Measures
In the world's fourth-largest scale model of the solar system, a million miles are condensed into 42 feet. Visitors interested in scaled-down interplanetary travel can begin their journey at the Lakeview Museum of the Arts and Sciences, whose yellow planetarium serves as the solar system's sun. Driving directions provided by the museum will guide you to nearest planet, Mercury, which is just 1.5 inches tall and located a quarter of a mile away in a nearby camera shop. Saturn is eight miles further out in a Kroger supermarket. Pluto, just 0.7 inches in diameter, can be found in the middle of a furniture store in Kewanee, 40 miles from the museum. Those with a true passion to appreciate the vast scale of our universe can also visit a handful of asteroids scattered across the United States, and comets that have been placed even further afield in Ecuador, Japan and Swaziland. Fortunately, in such a scaled-down universe, the speed of light is only 5.3 miles per hour, a brisk jog.
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- Website http://www.bradley.edu/las/phy/solar_system.html
- Address 1125 W. Lake Ave., Peoria, 61614, United States
Hours differ for each of the planets, as they're housed in different stores and institutions across the state of Illinois. Hours are listed on the web site.
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Physics and especially astronomy were my favorite lessons during high school years. I loved to learn about the planets, galaxy and the universe. Later on sci-fi movies were concentrating all of my free time, and now on my late 50s I still recall that time. My mind is still travel to distant worlds and unknown civilizations as a very known tv series use to say. Today my reality is far less fascinating. I work day by day as a support personnel of a web hosting industry and on my spare time I try to publish articles about <a href="http://www.webhostingart.com/shared-web-hosting.html">shared hosting</a> providers to my small blog. I miss these days. I was dreaming day and night with my eyes closed and opened to travel to the stars. I just hope that the future generations will be lucky enough in order not only to put their step on distant galaxies but why not to make one of them their home.
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Anonymous
June 20, 2009
According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_system_model">Wikipedia</a> this model is actually the fourth biggest; the biggest being <a href="http://ttt.astro.su.se/swesolsyst/englishsum.html">Sweden Solar System</a>.
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