A scale model of the solar system in an English village

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Oct 2003

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Journal of the British Astronomical Association, vol.113, no.5, p.257-261

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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In 1999 Otford Parish Council in Kent called for suggestions to celebrate the forthcoming millennium. In July Mr David Thomas MA, a retired schoolteacher, proposed that the parish build an accurate scale model of the Solar System to show the positions of the planets as they were at midnight on 2000 January 1. The model should fit within the parish boundary and be accessible to the public. It was intended that the model should last a thousand years: when the next millennium arrives, astronomers should be able to calculate when it was erected to within about 15 minutes, assuming it survives.

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