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As you wander through the Commons you can be excused from missing it since it's not near a cafe or pizza place, but once you find it you feel an undeniable urge to discover more. Ithaca has an inventive tribute to the late, great Carl Sagan. It's not just some boring statue with a bust that could be any guy and engraved with "Carl stopped here in 1988 to buy a hotdog during a festival" at the bottom. Oh no. This one takes effort.

Collectively it is known as the Sagan Planet Walk. Start at the pedestrian crossroads of the Commons and you will find a statue to the sun that's about 6ft (1.8 meters) tall (by itself showing that locals know for certain that the rest of the world revolves around Ithaca).

The rest of the solar system is laid out proportionally according to actual distance and size  (see map). For example the sun is really 1,392,000 km in diameter so the hole in the statue is 278mm (11 inches). Uranus is 47,000 km in diameter so its hole is (contrary to crude jokes) 9.4mm (.37 inches) and it is located 574 meters (632 yards) away from the sun (near the library) which is proportional to its 2,870,000,000 km actual orbit radius. Bored yet? Well you shouldn't be. Pluto, the furthest,  is 1,180 km away or .6 of a mile and on the side of the Science Center.

Now that I have found Pluto, I will go back with my sledgehammer and adjust the planet walk according to the official 2006 revision of the Definition of a Planet.

BTW, I miss the snow. I thought it was supposed to SNOW in winter.