''Nine Views'' () is an ambiental installation in

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which, together with the sculpture ''Prizemljeno Sunce'' (''The Grounded Sun''), comprises a scale model of the Solar System. ''Prizemljeno Sunce'' by Ivan Kožarić was first displayed in 1971 by the building of the Croatian National Theatre, and since then changed location a few times. Since 1994, it has been situated in Bogovićeva Street. It is a bronze sphere around in diameter. In 2004, artist had a two-week exhibition in the Josip Račić Exhibition Hall in Margaretska Street in Zagreb, and afterwards, he placed 9 models of the

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of the

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around Zagreb, to complete a model of the entire solar system. The models' sizes as well as their distances from the ''Prizemljeno Sunce'' are all in the same scale as the ''Prizemljeno Sunce'' itself. Preis did this installation with very little or no publicity, so his installation is not well known among citizens of Zagreb. On a few occasions, individuals or small groups of people, particularly physics students, "discovered" that there was a model of the Solar System in Zagreb. One of the earliest efforts to find all of the planets was started in November 2004 on the web forum of the student section of the Croatian Physics Society. The locations of the planets are as follows: *Mercury - 3 Margaretska Street *Venus - 3 Ban Josip Jelačić Square *Earth - 9 Varšavska Street *Mars - 21

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*Jupiter - 71 Voćarska Street *Saturn - 1 Račićeva Street *Uranus - 9 Siget (not at the residential building but at the garage across the street) *Neptune - Kozari 17 *Pluto - Bologna Alley (underpass) - included in the installation before being demoted to

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(someone has since ripped Pluto off, however the plaque remains) The system is at scale 1:680 000 000. Earth's model is about in diameter and is distance from the Sun's model, while Pluto's model is away from it.

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Sun The Sun is the star at the centre of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light a ...

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Venus Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is often called Earth's "twin" or "sister" planet for having almost the same size and mass, and the closest orbit to Earth's. While both are rocky planets, Venus has an atmosphere much thicker ...

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Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to Planetary habitability, harbor life. This is enabled by Earth being an ocean world, the only one in the Solar System sustaining liquid surface water. Almost all ...

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Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", because of its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous carbon dioxide () atmosphere. At the average surface level the atmosph ...

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Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a Jupiter mass, mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined a ...

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Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter. It is a gas giant, with an average radius of about 9 times that of Earth. It has an eighth the average density of Earth, but is over 95 tim ...

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Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a Supercritical fluid, supercritical phase of matter, which astronomy calls "ice" or Volatile ( ...

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Neptune Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun. It is the List of Solar System objects by size, fourth-largest planet in the Solar System by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. It is 17 t ...

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Pluto Pluto (minor-planet designation: 134340 Pluto) is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a ring of Trans-Neptunian object, bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is the ninth-largest and tenth-most-massive known object to directly orbit the Su ...

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External links

Web site of the project

The photos and the locations of all "grounded planets"

Complete guide with maps, public transportation and pictures
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