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Greeting all, I've been lurking here for years and finally decided that I'd built something worth sharing: (URL) orrery was made to demonstrate why daylight varries so much here in Alaska. The inclination of the earth's axis as well rotational (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic) !
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Tom, I never knew what that was called. Your model is wonderful. Thank you for sharing. Bob (...) (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Thomas Johnson" <aklego@mac.com> wrote in message news:HE2LDp.5xJ@lugnet.com... (...) I was going to try and write more, but I can't think of anything to say, other than this is really, really cool. :) Fantastic work! Iain (21 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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groovy good job i like the earth maybe you could try to use one of the lego clock hands mechanisms you know the coaxial mechanism to hide the moon gearing under the earth globe sorry i'm advicing but that is because your moc inspires me much br (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Apologies are not necessary--I agree that the moon mechanism is unsightly and I am looking for ways to clean it up for the nine planet version. Unfortunately (for orrery makers) the moon's orbit and earth's axis of rotation are not coaxial. (...) (21 years ago, 29-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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"Thomas Johnson" <aklego@mac.com> wrote in message news:HE4DMA.1Eqy@lugnet.com... (...) cause i said something without any knowledge about the current state of the orrery i missed that the moon's orbit's not coaxial with the earth's one but as i (...) (21 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Oh, wow. That's brilliant. Now how about a .DAT file ;-) (21 years ago, 3-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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(...) Thank you. But I'm afraid that .dat file will be a long time coming--I don't know ldraw and don'd see when I'd have the time to learn. :( Tom (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.technic)
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