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Article: Pedaling to Pluto: A trek across world's largest complete solar system model.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- September 21, 2004
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Byline: Charles Storch
PEORIA, Ill. _ "Meet me at Neptune," said Sheldon Schafer. "Or ride the bus with me to Pluto."
The invitation was intriguing, coming as it did from the curator of the solar system.
The community solar system, that is, a set of sized-to-scale and carefully placed planet models extending as far as 40 miles from the sun, otherwise known as the Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences in Peoria.
"It is the largest, complete model of the solar system in the world," said Lakeview's vice president of education and planetarium overseer, the down-to-earth Schafer. But he is planning an even bigger one that should silence any ...