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!
Sweden Solar System
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#12"Uranus (2.6 m in diameter) was vandalized"
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#13I pass through Ericsson Globe almost daily but never realized that I'm travelling in "Solar System"
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#16The system is at scale 1:680 000 000. Earth's model is about 1.9 cm in size and at 225 m distance from the sun's model, while Pluto's model is 7.7 km away from it...
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#17I shouldn't laugh, I really shouldn't... "Uranus (2.6 m in diameter) was vandalized"
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#18I shouldn't laugh, I really shouldn't... "Uranus (2.6 m in diameter) was vandalized"
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#19I shouldn't laugh, I really shouldn't... "Uranus (2.6 m in diameter) was vandalized"
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.