The Solar System Music Box

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1. Maureen
   Posted March 30, 2010 at 4:53 pm | Permalink

   This is wonderful!

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2. Ryan Haupt
   Posted March 30, 2010 at 5:57 pm | Permalink

   I had a friend send this to me just a few days ago. I was entranced.

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3. AnonyMiss
   Posted March 30, 2010 at 6:09 pm | Permalink

   This was amazing. ^.^

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4. Yoshi3329
   Posted March 30, 2010 at 6:41 pm | Permalink

   I love so simple and I love the choice of color!

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5. bigjohn756
   Posted March 30, 2010 at 7:19 pm | Permalink

   I’m waiting for Neptune to strike.

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6. Johan Van Loon
   Posted March 30, 2010 at 9:56 pm | Permalink

   Amazing ! But shouldn’t they exclude Pluto ? I thought it was no longer considered a planet ?
   Besides, it would be nice if they could make a difference (longer notes ?) for larger planets like Jupiter….

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7. Walt
   Posted March 31, 2010 at 4:44 pm | Permalink

   Pluto is occasionally closer to the Sun than Neptune.

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8. Drf
   Posted April 7, 2010 at 7:23 pm | Permalink

   @ Johan Van Loon: But it’s still a part of the Solar System. Perhaps SolarBeat 2.0 should include the other dwarf planets.

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9. Diego
   Posted April 11, 2010 at 4:32 am | Permalink

   Extraordinario, interesante y creativo!

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10. Wes
    Posted April 13, 2010 at 4:27 pm | Permalink

    Johan, if you are complaining about Pluto’s inclusion, why do you have no issue with them including Ceres in the music box? That has never been a planet.

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11. Edie B.
    Posted April 18, 2010 at 1:30 am | Permalink

    Well, Ceres was considered a planet for some of the 19th century; then it was demoted to “asteroid.” Now it’s considered a dwarf planet, like Pluto, Eris, Makemake and Haumea. I only know this because I have a five-year-old space nut.

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12. Mike Lemonick
    Posted April 18, 2010 at 2:51 pm | Permalink

    This is just insanely brilliant.

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13. tom
    Posted April 18, 2010 at 7:50 pm | Permalink

    So, what is the beauty of a minimum font size, you are not able to zoom?
    can’t see it. nice ideas anyway :-)

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14. JemK
    Posted April 19, 2010 at 12:38 pm | Permalink

    This is beautiful, such an interesting way to illustrate the solar system. Good work!

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15. solisiter
    Posted April 26, 2010 at 7:15 pm | Permalink

    That’s a charming illustration of the theorie of “Music of the spheres”, which concept comes from Pythagoras, 26 centuries ago. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis
    Merci !

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16. Daniel Ferry
    Posted May 7, 2010 at 8:00 pm | Permalink

    Hello.

    I made a replica of this in Excel. It’s actually pretty cool. It’s an animated chart with MIDI for the sounds. I just did the 8 real planets and left off the 2 planetoids. I called mine solarsong:

    http://www.excelhero.com/blog/2010/05/excel-animated-chart.html

    Regards,

    Daniel Ferry
    excelhero.com

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17. Will
    Posted May 9, 2010 at 8:49 pm | Permalink

    this is great, i’m 15 and do astronomy gcse and have already covered the solar system in our course, but this is really cool and i’m gonna tery and show my teacher and i think she too will be entranced by the simplicity… genius

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18. Charlie
    Posted November 30, 2010 at 7:39 pm | Permalink

    How beautiful. It’d be really cool to see a blues scale version, too.

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19. Jeff Collins
    Posted April 19, 2011 at 5:16 am | Permalink

    This is actually really cool. Perhaps you can add a few of the exo planets to the mix?? :) Jeff

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