Kevin Poe has plans for installing a permanent "Planet Walk" at Bryce where many of you have seen only temporary waysides before. The Planet Walk is a 1/10-billionth scale model of the solar system (one inch = 150,000 miles). Stansbury Park might be interested in making the SPOC orrery a similar community "planet walk" with the beginning at SPOC and other features (planets, asteroid belt, Kuiper Belt, Oort Cloud, etc.) found elsewhere in the community. On such a basis maybe the community would also help pay for it. Bryce's planet walk wayside exhibits will be 24x18 permanent post-mounted panels with an image and facts about each object/feature. I'm sure Kevin wouldn't mind sharing his expertise in at least explaining how our Planet Walk would be set up. Might even be willing to help, as this is just the stuff a good interpretive ranger does. :-) Kim -----Original Message----- From: utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:utah-astronomy-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Joe Bauman Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 12:57 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] SPOC orrery Humm, interesting. Maybe a little plaque for each planet, flat on the ground, with an explanation. I'd advocating flat ones so that no one will stumble on them in the dark, and so that mowing machines can go over the ones on grass. -- Joe