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ndwhose period is about 250 years. The resistance could havebeen produced by collision with a planet whose mass was ^^that of one of the suns. It follows that if a star passing thesun should meet Jupiter, something comparable to what hasbeen given in the example wou.d result. Figure 186 showsthe… … Fig. 186. — Reduction of parabolic orbit toan ellipse by collision of a sun with a planetof another sun. 548 AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY [ch. xiii, 299 collisions, the stars will continue to describe very elongatedelliptical orbits about their center of gravity. If there aresubsequent collisions…
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