A Truly Educational Sculpture

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The Sun and planets are blown glass supported on arms of carbon fiber extending out from a 1950's-era "Bonestellian" finned rocket.

The table top is 1/2 inch thick cast crystal in 12 pie sections, each etched with its corresponding zodiacal sign and days/months of the year.

All rest upon a base of hand-crafted solid cherry wood in the form of a mariner's compass rose. Each of the eight cabinet panels are carved with data on a planet and its physical properties in relation to Earth.