Electro astronomical atlas ... with explanatory notes, questions and answers (1874)
Spoor, J. W. (Joseph W.) · Albany, N.Y., Weed, Parsons and Company · leaf 112
less. Q. What is the density of this planet % A. About that of water. Q. What is the eccentricity of its orbit ? A. It is eighty-five million miles. Q. What would a body weighing one pound onthe Earths surface weigh if removed to the planetUranus % A. It would weigh fourteen ounces and four-teen… … nearly perpendicular to the plane of the planetsorbit. These bodies, whose revolutions are accom-plished, the nearest in two days, and the mostdistant in about 108 days, possibly compensate,in some degree, by their reflected light, duringthe nights of the planet, the feeble intensity ofthe…
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