The world's largest scale model of the solar system

By Richard on January 13, 2011 9:50 PM | No Comments | No TrackBacks
... is located in Sweden.

The sun is represented by the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, the largest hemispherical building in the world. The inner planets can also be found in Stockholm but the outer planets are situated northward in other cities along the Baltic Sea. It was started by Nils Brenning and Gösta Gahm. It is in the scale of 1:20 million.

More at Wikipedia. On another note, we return triumphantly from our holiday hiatus!


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