HAYDEN PLANETARIUM, NEW YORK
COPERNICAN ROOM SHOWING SOLAR SYSTEM
Animated model of the solar system showing the sun in
the center, and six of the nine known planets revolving
around it. The planets also rotate on their axes as the
real planets rotate, moving always at the correct relative
speeds. Circling the Earth is a smaller globe, the moon,
while Mars has two moons. Jupiter is shown with four
of its eleven moons. and Saturn with five of its nine.
Around the walls are shown the twelve zodiacal constel-
lations and in the center of the floor a reproduction of the
Aztec Calendar Stone.
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