Rob, That would be an orrery and the nice ones with gears are expensive. Do a google search for orrery and you'll find a lot of links. Good luck. I think they are very cool and really help with understanding the movements of the solar system for those of us who are visual learners.
Ginger Rob and Colleen wrote: > > Hello all and Happy New Year- > I'm trying to find one of those mechanical models like we had in > gradeschool that shows planetary motion. Remember, little tabletop model > withthe sun in the middle and a series of gears moving the planets > around it, some even had the moon on a separate gear around earth. Do > these things have a name? I swear I have tried everything I can think of > on a web search and its coming up zilch. MODEL, KEPLER, PLANET(s)(ary), > MECHANICAL, MOTION, SOLAR SYSTEM, ORBIT----all failed in various > combinations. Any ideas? > > -- > Rob Wesel > -------------- > We are the music makers...and we are the dreamers of the dreams. > Willy Wonka, 1971 > > Show your support at the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund - >http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/my-pay-page/PKAXFNQH7EKCX/058-5084202-7156648 > _______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Show your support at the Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund - http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/ts/my-pay-page/PKAXFNQH7EKCX/058-5084202-7156648 _______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
