Planetenlehrpfad am Radioteleskop Effelsberg - Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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argus1972
N 50° 31.391 E 006° 52.865
32U E 349804 N 5598947
Planet path at the Effelsberg radio telescope
Waymark Code: WMZ0GP
Location: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Date Posted: 08/20/2018
Views: 6
Since autumn 2004, there has been a 766 m long planetary hiking trail on the footpath from the visitors' car park to the radio telescope with information boards on the planets of our solar system and on the sun itself.
It begins at the parking lot with the dwarf planet Pluto, leads over the outer solar system with four gas planets into the inner solar system with four rock planets, to which also our earth belongs. It ends with a model of the sun (concrete sphere of almost 40 cm diameter) directly at the visitor pavilion of the radio telescope.
This results in a scale of 1 : 7. 7 billion. 1 cm corresponds to 77000 km or 6 times the earth diameter. On this scale Pluto is 766 meters away from the sun.
Address:
Max-Planck-Strasse 28
Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg, NRW Germany
53902
To-Scale by distance: yes
To-Scale by Size: yes
Is the model an Orrery?: no
Web Page: [Web Link]
Hours:
24/7/365
Admission Fee: 0.00 (listed in local currency)
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