Ball, R[obert] S[tawell], Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 136
eir satellites, and the comets. To these should,perhaps, be added a vast host of minute bodies which, The Solar System. 117 when they come into our atmosphere, produce thewell-known phenomena of the shooting stars. All the bodies we have mentioned form one iso-lated group in the universe. The most… … of the different members of the solar system. It is,however, not possible to represent conveniently in afigure the real proportions of the orbits. Il8 Astronomy. § 93. The Planets.—Tn the centre we have thesun, round which all the other bodies circulate. Theplanet, so far as we know at present,…
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