Kippax, John Robert, 1849- [from old catalog] · New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 328
h have generally a rough kind of order that fol-lows what is known as Bodes Law. They are believedto have been evolved, as mentioned in the previouschapter, from various nuclei which existed in the The Local Solar System 267 original spiral, and are all of the same age. The inneror terrestrial… … Fig. 6. The Orbits of the Major Planets. no satellites. The outer or major planets (Fig. 6), onthe other hand, were evolved from great nuclei and arehuge, rather vapotuy bodies, not quite so advanced intheir planetary history. They are enormously distantfrom one another, travel more leisurely, and…
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