Martin, Martha Evans, d. 1925 · New York and London, Harper & Brothers · leaf 202
es that of the earth; the sunsown surface is only a hundred times largerthan his. Jupiter weighs more than threehundred times as much as the earth; thesun weighs only six times more than Jupiter.At the equator his diameter is about ninetythousand miles; but, as the planet is muchflattened at the… … JUPITER, THE MAMMOTH MEMBER OF THE SOLAR FAMILY—LARGER THAN ALL THE OTHER PLANETS PUT TOGETHER This photograph shows the flattening at the poles and also the beltsencircling the planet. It was photographed at the Yerkes Observatory. JUPITER plastic body to bulge at the equator, andthus flatten at…
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