Thursday, April 16, 2026

Belgium's Lost Solar System: a tour around Belgoum and now completed with Neptune

See my previous blogpost back in January 4th 2019.
In this blogpost I gave an overview of the sun and planets located in Belgium at a scale of  1 to 40 million.
I found the entire solarsystem around Belgium: 

- Sun in Oudergem
- Mercury in Oudergem
- Venus in Watermaal Bosvoorde
- Earth and Moon in Uccle
- Mars in Hoeiilaart
- Jupiter in Kempenhout
- Saturn in Gembloux
- Uranus in Tongeren
- Neptune was missing in Oostende
- Pluto in Florenville

Finally this year, the statue of Neptune showed up again. Before it was installad at the seashore of Oosternde, now it is installed at Astropolis, Space Science Center of Oostende.
This morning I was in Oostende and made a detour to visit the statue. And finally, yes, I could finish my Belgium tour around the sun and planets.