Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 218
xed star, on the same scale, would beabout a mile and a quarter away. It will be seen that theorbits of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and several of the asteroidsare quite distinctly out of centre with respect to thesun. 202 PERIODS. [§286 286. Periods. — The Sidereal Period of a planet is the timeof its… … Fig. 73. —Plan of the Smaller Planetary Orbits. The sidereal and synodic periods are connected by the samerelation as the sidereal and synodic months (Art. 141), namely, 1 _ 1 __1 ~s~p~e §286] APPAKENT MOTIONS. 203 in which E, P, and S are respectively the periods of the earth and ofthe planet, and…
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