LOCAL SOLAR SYSTEM

Ordering is closed while the first plaques are in production

A scientific art installation · cast in bronze

Put the Sun where you stand.

Nine cast bronze plaques place every planet at its true proportional distance, across your room, your park, or your state. One measurement sets the whole sky. The engraving carries your place name and your figures.

Preview your set Walk to Neptune
Nine plaquesSun through Neptune
$1,995Complete set, cast bronze
5 x 4 inEach plaque · engraved to order
Earth
Scaled Distance30.9 ft
Scaled Diameter0.801 mm
Light Travel Time8:19
Local Solar System

Click the place name to type your own · choose a material

The science · felt, not told

This next stretch of page is the model itself, at campus scale: 927 ft from the Sun to Neptune. Scroll it the way you would walk it. The inner planets pass in seconds. Then the emptiness begins.

You are at the Sun
0FT FROM THE SUN
Sunlight reaches this point in 0s
YOU

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The collection

The set of nine

Sun through Neptune, sold as one set. Every plaque carries its scaled distance, its true diameter, and the real time light takes to reach it. Figures shown at campus scale; yours are engraved from your own measurement.

No two sets share a scale · the gaps between them are the exhibit

Provenance

A museum object is not a product with a logo. It is an object with a record. Every Local Solar System set is engraved with its own scale and its own place, computed for the ground it stands on, and no two sets carry the same numbers.

MaterialCast bronze, engraved brass, or reverse-engraved acrylic. Bronze is sand cast with raised lettering and darkens over decades toward the green of public monuments, so a set reads as a landmark, not signage.
EngravingYour place name, your scale, and figures computed from NASA planetary fact sheets. Distance and diameter shrink to fit your site. Light time never does.
Size5 x 4 inches, each of the nine. Sold only as the complete set: the gaps between them are the point.
MountingFour countersunk holes. Wall, post, stake, or stone.

Raised lettering, cast bronze · detail at close range

Pick your scale

Tell us how far your Sun stands from your Neptune. Every distance and every diameter follows from that single measurement.

927 ftacross the quadSun to Neptune
8.75 cma grapefruitThe Sun's diameter
0.801 mma grain of sandEarth's diameter
4 minat strolling paceYour walk, Sun to Neptune
4h 10mnever scales, it is realLight, Sun to Neptune

On this scale you outrun light. Sunlight needs 4 hours 10 minutes to reach Neptune. You will do it in 4 min.

Your set

One measurement and one material. Every plaque is engraved to your scale and your place, then made and shipped as one set.

Cast bronze$1,995
Engraved brass$1,995
Acrylic$1,000
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Engraved · set of nine