Orrery
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orrery-162-13751395
title:
Orrery
text:
An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model. It may also represent the relative sizes of these bodies; however, since accurate scaling is often not practical due to the actual large ratio differences, a scaled-down approximation may be used instead. The Greeks had working planetaria, but the first modern example was produced c. 1712 by John Rowley. He name
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Mechanical model of the Solar System
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orrery
date created:
2002-07-05T11:28:06Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T23:59:09Z
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image:
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13
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