SOLAR SYSTEM DRIVE
The “Kamilaroi Highway”, named after the Aboriginal tribe from this area, took me from Coonabarabran back to Sydney yesterday. The highway is home to the world’s largest virtual Solar System Drive leading up to Siding Spring Observatory (representing the Sun scaled relative to the size of the dome of the Anglo-Australian Telescope). The sizes and distances between planets alongside the road are then scaled relative to the size of the Sun. The model is 38 million times smaller than “in real” – I was just passing Saturn…
