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Article: New solar system show at planetarium is out of this world.(Science & Technology)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- April 30, 2006
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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard
`It's a little bit like if you left an apple out on the kitchen counter too long."
What in the world - (make that our solar system) - is Sue Peterson talking about?
The appearance of Mercury, of course. Not the car or the chemical or the Roman god, but the eighth largest planet in the solar system.
At least that's the way it appears, a tad shriveled and pockmarked with craters, in photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Or on the ceiling of The Science Factory's planetarium.
That's where you can see it, along with every other planet and everything else in the solar system, every ...