The Circle, Present and Future - The Stones and the Stars: Building Scotland's Newest Megalith - page 295

F IG . 10.10 Unused stones lying in Sighthill Park (Photo by Linda Lunan,
June 2011)
After the circle is restored and completed, what then, I am
often asked. Back in 1979, our next plan was to build a model of
the Solar System, scaled to the city of Glasgow. Gavin Roberts had
realized that if the stone circle represented the Sun, then the orbit
of Pluto (then still designated a planet) would be at the city bound-
ary (Fig. 10.14 ) . The orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, and a
small arc of the orbit of Ceres, would all lie within Sighthill Park.
Jupiter would be on the campus of the University of Strathclyde.
Through the late Professor Tedford, of the Department of Electri-
cal Engineering and of the Glasgow Astronomical Society, we had
arranged for it to be placed next to the Steelhenge (Fig. 5.5 ) , mak-
ing a link between that and our circle.
Saturn would have been on Queen's Dock, now the site of the
Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, but now obviously
it would be on the other side of the river Clyde at the Glasgow
Science Centre. Uranus and Neptune might be on Maryhill Road,