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• n  a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling
• n  an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome
• n  an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems

• President Frederick Trubee Davison of the American Museum of Natural History had created a planetarium Authority, got RFC's promise to take $650,000 of planetarium bonds to be .
• But the Rose's centerpiece, literally and dramatically, is the planetarium itself, located in the upper half of the sphere.
• The American Museum of Natural History has long wanted a planetarium to show visitors how the planets revolve about the Sun, how the Sun moves among the other stars.

News & Articles

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• Virginia Beach Planetarium celebrates reopening
  The Virginia Beach City Public Schools Planetarium, located on Plaza Middle School's campus, is holding a community celebration Tuesday...
  June 12, 2013 - WTKR Norfolk
• Grand Rapids museum plans planetarium upgrade
  Grand Rapids museum plans planetarium upgrade The Grand Rapids Public Museum plans to begin work this fall on a $1.2 million project to upgrade the planetarium at the West Michigan attraction. AP Wire Grand rapids Jun 11, 2013 googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display("dfp-ad-ght300x250"); }); The museum recently announced that it received an $800,000 grant from The Wege Foundation to ...
  June 11, 2013 - Grand Haven Tribune
• Kickstart a Portable Planetarium
  If you went to Phoenix Comicon, you might already be familiar with Lauren Ard— or, as she hopes to be known around town, the planetarium lady. Ard is a former middle school science teacher who wanted to bring the night sky into her classroom.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
  June 10, 2013 - Tucson Weekly

Quotes

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• John McCain in CBS 4
  While we were working to eliminate these pork barrel earmarks, he voted for nearly $1 billion in pork barrel earmark projects including $3 million for an overhead projector at a planetarium in Chicago,McCain said during the second of three...
• Neil deGrasse Tyson in Science Daily (press release)
  Without his art, your planetarium experience would be limited to pointing out the stars of the night sky,Neil deGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium and an astrophysicist with the American Museum of Natural History, told The...
• Julio Bocca in WA today
  El Parque Thays is the biggest green area in Buenos Aires - lakes, tennis courts, a hippodrome, cycle paths, a planetarium, a zoo and even an art museum [the quirky Museo de Artes Plasticas Eduardo S{aac}vori, dedicated to plastic art],Bocca...