Foucault Pendulum of Centro Ciência Viva de Estremoz-Portugal
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N 38° 50.571 W 007° 35.083
29S E 622824 N 4300289
At Centro Ciência Viva de Estremoz come find your way around the place ... all inhabit the Earth. A wonderful planet where all phenomena are interrelated.
Waymark Code: WMANJ7
Location: Évora, Portugal
Date Posted: 02/04/2011
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Foucault pendulum, with 11 meters high and that shows the Earth rotating around its axis, in the presence of Minister of Science and Technology. Minister Gago will burn the tape, the National Day of Scientific and Technological Culture, giving the first impetus to the Foucault pendulum, by repeating the procedures performed in 1851 by Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
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