Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetarium - Sao Paolo, Brazil
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S 23° 35.040 W 046° 39.663
23K E 330497 N 7390845
Located in Sao Paolo's Ibirapuera Park.
Waymark Code: WM1202H
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Date Posted: 01/20/2020
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"The Professor Aristóteles Orsini Planetarium (Portuguese: Planetário Professor Aristóteles Orsini), also known as the Ibirapuera Planetarium (Portuguese: Planetário do Ibirapuera), is a planetarium in Ibirapuera Park, São Paulo. It opened in January 1957, and was the first planetarium in Brazil and Latin America. It is one of three planetaria in São Paulo, with the others being Carmo Planetarium and the Johannes Kepler Planetarium at Sabina Escola Parque do Conhecimento.
History
The planetarium was proposed in 1951 by Aristóteles Orsini, then director of the Associação dos Amadores de Astronomia de São Paulo, as part of the 400th anniversary celebrations of the foundation of São Paulo. A Zeiss projector was then purchased, at a cost of Cr $ 3,000,000 (including transportation; 1952 values), arriving at the Port of Santos by 29 May 1952. Also in 1952, Orsini was commissioned to study the installation of the projector in a planetarium in the city, for which he visited Urania Sternwarte, Switzerland, and interned at the planetarium at Palais de la Découverte, Paris; he then recommended the creation of a science Museum in the same style as that in Paris, with the planetarium attached, which was never realised.
The architects of the final building were Antonio Carlos, Eduardo Corona and Roberto G. Tibau Pitombo, and was constructed by Construtora Politécnica Ltda."