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- noun Plural form of
planetarium .
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Examples
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Oobject blog shares this cool gallery of orreries, planetaria and tellurions.
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Oobject blog shares this cool gallery of orreries, planetaria and tellurions.
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Funding planetaria is important, and something the government should be helping with if it's needed.
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As an astronomer and educator, I had a slap-in-the-face moment last month when I read that John McCain called funding planetariums (in the biz we call them planetaria) "foolishness."
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Go to seminars at local universities, community colleges, museums, planetaria, town meetings.
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Did you know that there are other ways to educate students about science than planetaria?
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I dig the leech supply jars and tabletop pulley and cord planetaria ....
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"Directorium generale uranometricum in quo trigonometriæ fundamenta ac regulæ demonstrantur", 1632; "Rota planetaria", 1640;
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Interest in planetaria is, I should say, an acquired taste; but there can be no doubt as to the industry and ingenuity of this inventor.
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Geeks and gear-heads alike will be pleased to find giant steam engines, turn-of-the-century automata, mechanical computers, and analog planetaria right in their own backyards.
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