[meteorite-list] re a little help

From: Dave Harris <entropydave_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:55:39 2004
Message-ID: <004c01c192a1$4fe237e0$849f0050_at_default>

Hi Rob,
Try the word "Orrery"!


Subject: [meteorite-list] A little help

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?

-- 
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dave 
  
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