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The Thousand-Yard Model: The Earth as a Peppercorn
The ThousandYard Model The Earth as a Peppercorn Author:Guy Ottewell Instructions for using common objects such as nuts to make a solar-system model, over a distance of 1000 yards. It could be called a Model, Walk, or Happening. Tested many times with groups of children, who invariably are spellbound by the incredible distances. Since it also leads to a vivid grasp of light-years, star sizes, etc., it is an ideal... more » opener to any astronomy course, for students of any age. This description was twice printed in magazines, and was revised and reprinted as a booklet because there are so many requests for copies of it. The exercise (first devised for children in an Indian reservation) has been performed annually or monthly by some astronomy clubs and at the American Museum of Natural History, New York; has been proposed as an installation in Portland, Oregon. and other cities; and we know of it being performed in Peru, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Japan, and along a kilometer of the Great Wall of China. New edition 2012, amplified and with a variety of illustrations (including cartoons) ? making this popular product even more attractive!« less