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Re: Sweden Solar System

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I went on a hunt for a few of these when I was in Stockholm recently and it was a bit disappointing. We couldn't find a sign at the globe and lots of places were shut. Venus is now a building site and we couldn't find Jupiter at the airport. We found the Earth and moon, Mars and Mercury (from a distance). It is a good way to explore and you get good value out of a T-bana pass. Edit: If anyone is interested I can writ…

> If anyone is interested I can write up the hunt Please!

OK, will do. I also checked out http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/pionen-data-center in Södermalm. It was shut but you can see a bit through the glass doors. Missed out on http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/r1-nuclear-reactor though :(.

Re: Sweden Solar System

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post #12

I shouldn't laugh, I really shouldn't... "Uranus (2.6 m in diameter) was vandalized"

Unfortunately, due to its name, Uranus has been the butt of many jokes.

Sorry -- had to share that. Got it from the wonderful "Great Courses" intro to astronomy series (See? I managed to throw in some good hacker stuff and tell a corny joke at the same time.) Highly recommended.

Re: Sweden Solar System

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There's one in Denmark as well, although much smaller (1: 1 billion). One thing that I thought was really cool when I visited was that if you stood by the fake earth an looked at the fake sun it appeared precisely the same size as the real sun. Also very cool to walk for a couple of hours and reaching tiny Pluto.

http://www.planetstien.dk/Planetarypath.htm

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