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Travel the solar system in a day at this downtown Gainesville event

A statue of the sun sits along the solar system walking tour in Gainesville. The walk, which begins in downtown Gainesville and ends near Longwood Park, is a scale model of the solar system. - photo by David Barnes

08312017 SOLAR 0001.jpg — A statue of the sun sits along the solar system walking tour in Gainesville. The walk, which begins in downtown Gainesville and ends near Longwood Park, is a scale model of the solar system. - photo by David Barnes

Some time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, Gainesville space travelers took regular walking tours of the solar system without leaving their home planet — or hometown, for that matter.