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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 5038. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Usually a domed building housing a special projector that is used to simulate the night sky. The institution associated with a planetarium is devoted to popular education in astronomy. The term was originally used to describe teaching devices, known as orreries, designed to portray the orbital motions of the planets and their satellites. The first planetarium was opened at the Deutsches Museum in...

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