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Melbourne's Solar System Trail on the Bay Trail is a great place to go for a run: it's right by the sea and has an interesting way of measuring out your run, which can be good for an out-and-back, or for interval training.
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The Melbourne Solar System Trail Along the foreshore of the City of Port Phillip there's a creative 5.9-kilometre run that takes you from the south end of St Kilda Beach (through St Kilda, Middle Park and Albert Park) to Sandridge Beach in Port Melbourne, or from the Sun to Pluto, as the track's scientific artwork suggests.
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Solar System models, especially mechanical models, called orreries, that illustrate the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons in the Solar System have been built for centuries. While they often showed relative sizes, these models were usually not built to scale.
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Solar System Trail Wikimedia Commons Features: By the Beach Multi-Use Trails Categories: 'Unique' Runs Waterfront Promenades It's hard to resist the Bay Trail, or the "Solar System Trail" which keeps you going from Pluto to the Sun with the astrophysics themed artwork scaled down to the length of this seaside path.
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Thanks to some talented artists and scientists - a model of our solar system, to a scale of one to one billion, has been created along a path from St Kilda Marina towards Port Melbourne. The trail starts at the sun sculpture, near the white lighthouse in Marina Reserve. Follow the path further along to visit the eight planets, accurately scaled.
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The Saint Kilda Solar System stretches for 6 kilometres along Melbourne's foreshore. It even includes Pluto. St Kilda's sun The St Kilda solar system starts in the southern part of the suburb, near the marina. The beginning is marked by a metal, 1.5 metre sculpture of the sun.
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THE MELBOURNE SOLAR SYSTEM SELF GUIDED TRAIL Step aboard Starship St Kilda! Now you can navigate the Solar System from our glorious Sun to the outer planets simply by following the bike and walking trail on the foreshore of the City of Port Phillip.
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The St Kilda Solar System Trail is a 1:1,000,000,000 (one to one billion) scale model of the solar system. It shows the planets and the sun at the correct re.
From Pluto to the Sun Melbourne Solar System trail The Nomadic Explorers Australian Travel Blog
Today, you can start with the centre of the solar system - the sun - which is on the foreshore path just near St Kilda Marina, Marina Reserve, St Kilda, and walk, skate or cycle off towards the Westgate Bridge, looking out for the various planets spaced along the way. 5.9km later (or 5.9 billion kilometres later, depending on how tired you are f.
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The St Kilda Solar System Trail in Melbourne, Australia is a 1:1,000,000,000 (one to one billion) scale model of the solar system. It shows the planets and the sun at the correct relative size and spacing. A bit of science with your beach experience. View on Youtube: https://youtu.be/jYvxOBNOPLU Transcript
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Solar System Trail (St Kilda - Port Melbourne) Port Phillip's 5.9km Solar System trail adds a celestial element to the foreshore between St Kilda and Port Melbourne. It has sun and planet sculptures which replicate the solar system on a cosmic scale of one to one billion.
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Solar System trail. The Solar System trail follows a similar route to the Foreshore trail, but with a cosmic twist, making it one of the most unique walks in Melbourne. In 2008, a group of artists and scientists constructed a trail along the foreshore from St Kilda to Port Melbourne, replicating the solar system on a scale of one to one billion.
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Marina Reserve, St Kilda, Victoria, 3182 Step into outer space, without leaving Melbourne. Down by St Kilda's foreshore, you'll find a to scale replica of our Solar System, starting with the Sun in Marina Reserve.
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The 5.9 km Melbourne Solar System Trail finishes here with a model of Pluto. The trail starts near the St Kilda Marina (28) with a model of the sun. Princes Pier (3) was completed in 1916 in time to send the troops off to the First World War. Originally known as New Railway Pier, it was renamed after the Prince of Wales visited in 1920.
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(30.08.2015) From Pluto to the Sun: Melbourne Solar System trail Location: Australia Victoria Melbourne 30.08.2015 For last couple of months it is been quiet here. As usual, I have perfect excuses for being silent: we had some family-related issues, projects to be implemented, small business to run and so onโฆ
