Changes in the Community Solar System

With the Lakeview Museum changing to the Riverfront Museum, the position of the "sun" for the Community Solar System had to be changed, and with it, most of the major features of the world's largest complete scale model of the solar system. The model also got bigger - the Earth is now 5" instead of 4" in diameter. Yesterday, the Jupiter model was taken down in Olin Hall, because it is now out of scale and out of alignment, see: http://www.bradley.edu/about/news/article.dot?id=707b0dc1-9ec7-42ee-bb9b-92e0ab49ce08.  I'm a bit sad about that because I used to show that model to campus visitors. Today, Katie and I visited the inner planet models of the solar system, now conveniently located in about a 1.5 mile stretch of riverfront pathway.