Kippax, John Robert, 1849- [from old catalog] · New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 327
ite to circle in an orbit over 190,000miles exterior to the Moons orbit. And again, so faroff is it, that a railway train, which, travelling night andday at the uniform rate of sixty miles an hour, could 265 266 The Call of the Stars make a circuit of the Earth in seventeen days, and ajourney to… … Fig. 5. The Orbits of the Terrestrial Planets. make the trip to the orbit of Neptune, the presentknown boundary of the local solar system. The planets, which may be divided into two principalclasses—the inner or terrestrial, and the outer or major—are dark opaque bodies that are illuminated by…
Stars · Constellations · Planets
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