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AAS DPS 2008: Jogging the planets

If you didn’t realize it, Ithaca was a good place for DPS. Cornell put on a concert for the planets. The art museum has a special Saturn exhibit going. But one of my favorite things is down the hill from Cornell: the planet walk. Named in honor of Carl Sagan, the planet walk was unveiled in 1997, but has a slightly retro, 1970s feel to it. A little hokey, but endearingly earnest and fun nonetheless. You start at the heart of the Ithaca Commons, downtown, with a concrete monument to the sun, adorned with factoids. A circular hole within the monument sets the scale: that is the diameter of the sun, at one 5-billionth of its size. 

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