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Orrery of the Sun and eight planets

  • 494 parts
  • Technic or a mechanism
  • With the assistant
  • Moves: gears
  • 1 view
  • In the gallery since
  • Version 1 of 2

About it

A working orrery: one crank turns all eight planets round the Sun, each through a gear train of its own, and every planet's year comes within 0.35% of NASA's. A Claude session built it in Brickworks, finding each train with the app's gear ratio search.

Licence

CC BY 4.0. Anyone may share it, change it and build on it, for any purpose, as long as they credit Brickworks (@brickworks) and link to this page. The licence.

Parts

494 parts in 56 lots

    Built by people

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    Remixes

    Nobody has remixed it yet. Open it in Brickworks to make a copy of your own to change; share that, and it shows here.

    Versions

    Version 1, the first.

    The others

    1. Version 2, the newest, : 12 parts added and 4 removed; its steps could not be compared. Built in steps a person can follow: the spine goes in between the planets, and the pillar tops let the axles through.