Who controls the planet walk, and are they aware all but two planets have been removed? The North Georgia Astronomers group began the project in 1998 to create a scale model of the solar system. “There was a total solar eclipse down in Aruba, but we could see a partial eclipse from Gainesville, so we set up telescopes on the square and a couple of classes came over from Brenau Academy, which was the high school over there at the time,” said Robert Webb, president of the astronomers group.