Space Part Five

Our aim is to build the world's largest scale model of the Solar System, in the UK. The Sun will be located at the world-famous Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, with six of its attendant planets dotted around the North West of England ...

* An exciting fusion of Science, Technology and Art
* 18 'artistic installations' will represent the Sun, planets, Halley's comet asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects
* Models to be sited within school grounds and sites of astronomical interest
* A scale of 1:15 million will embrace the whole UK, from Cornwall to the Shetland Isles
* Major involvement of school pupils and local communities
* A unique national resource for education and public outreach
* Nine installations to be completed by Spring 2005


You'll be interested to know that Uranus (represented by the sculpture pictured above) is located in Bath. It is in the exact spot where Uranus was discovered in 1781. I had no idea that we've known about Uranus for that long. I also wonder: is this the first time Uranus has been in (a) bath?

The Spaced Out Project