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Seems like there could/should be one for New York -- it could use the spherical Hayden Planetarium [1] as the sun. Which would be a conveniently somewhat smaller scale.

(To be fair, it does already have scale models of the planets right next to it, just not at scale distances [2].)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose_Center_for_Earth_and_Spac...

[2] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amnh_fg09.jpg



At scale distances from the 27m sphere planetarium (as the sun), earth would be a 24 cm sphere at distance of 2.8 km. From looking at a map, this could be a basketball somewhere a few blocks NNE of Times Square. (Pluto, however, would be 114km away. Dunno where that would be. Maybe Allentown, PA?)




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