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Friends of Anne Arundel County Trails introduces our world class project that's out of this world!

The Planet Walk Our most exciting project is taking shape!

Planet Walk is a linear museum of our solar system.  We are taking the Sun and the nine planets and shrinking our 3.7 billion mile Solar system down to 4.6 miles and placing it on the B&A Trail, keeping the relative distances between the Sun and each of the planets.  Imagine field trips to visit the Sun  just behind Harandale Plaza in Glen Burnie.  Students will be able to read and interact with educational storyboards created under the direction of Dr. Stephen Ailstock and NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Project Education and Public Outreach (E/PO) Office.  See press release for details.  Teachers will be able to access a website for lesson plans and field trip details.

The first station, the Sun, is completed with the exception of some landscaping and another couple of informational panels which will be done soon.

 The central sculpture, Spectrum, is a 26 foot tall sculpture topped with 9 rings.  Each ring represents one of the planets orbits.  There are 48 prisms inside the rings which split the light into the visible spectrum adding the active ingredient of demonstrating the sun’s roll in providing our world with colors.  Gardens and paved paths surround the sculpture with state of the art storyboards that relay educational information to the visitors in a manner that relates to multiple intelligences and real world situations.  

The second planet set for installation is Pluto.  Pluto is located a mere 3.7 billion miles down the trail near the Earliegh Heights Ranger Station.  Pluto's sculpture will again comprise a similar theme as the Sun Sculpture with nine rings.

On the right is an early model of the Pluto Station.

Pluto:

The Pluto sculpture was placed next to the trail last year.  Friends will be completing the educational signs, and landscaping this year.  

Next on the agenda:

Mercury & Venus:

The third station planned for construction is a combination of Mercury and Venus.  The theme is rotation and the fact that Venus rotates in a different direction than most of the other planets. 

Earth

The sculpture plans for Earth are amazing.  The sculpture is planned to be completed in bronze and will be a relief with many animals.  There will be a sphere on the corner with a special patina representing Earth.

Friends will continue to construct each of the planet stations until the solar system in completed.

Planet Walk Artist -- Judy Sutton Moore

Judy is a professional sculptor with considerable experience creating large scale public art works for diverse communities.

Judy' is an artist an educator and a lecturer.  Judy exhibits worldwide and has her studio in Maryland.  Judy was chosen October 2001 to be the Planet Walk artist.

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