The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend (1919)
Kippax, John R. (John Robert), 1849-1922 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 323
ellite 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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