Buenos Aires Landscapes

The Planetario Galileu Galilei (Galileu Galilei Planetary) of Buenos Aires is located at the Parque Tres de Febrero, more known as Bosques de Palermo.

The construction of its Futurist architecture started in 1962 and was directed by the Argentinean architect Enrique Jan. Its shape represents the planet Saturn silhouette, besides it also reminds a big UFO with the mission of taking away all its visitors to discovery journeys into space.

The building has 5 stages being the last one a room of 20-meter diameter with 360 reclinable chairs for the dome’s observation, which is internally covered by aluminum plates and works as a big screen. On it we can see projected the Moon, the Sun, the visible planets and 8900 stars, constellations and nebulas.

On the first floor there is a museum where we can see exposed a Moon rock brought to Earth by the Apollo XI Mission, a gift given by the president of USA Richard Nixon. There are also three meteorites exposed, all found on the region called “Campo del Cielo” (field of the sky or heaven), North of Argentina, as a result of a meteorite rain occurred 4000 years ago, caused by a small asteroid of 8 to 10-meter diameter which hit against the Earth atmosphere and splitted into fragments that caused several craters when they fell over this region.

You can find more information about the functions and activities as free courses, Science afternoons, telescopic observations, conferences, etc. at the Planetary official website. It is another great place of Buenos Aires offering accessible culture and knowledge to all the visitors. 

Where?
Parque Tres de Febrero - Bosques de Palermo | Av. Sarmiento e Figueroa Alcorta | Tel: +54 (11) 4771-9393 / 4771-6629

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sepphora | May 12, 2008 | 12:20 am | Palermo