Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 262
ut. The planet shows no 1 The recent measures of Barnard and See make the diameter nearly2000 miles greater. 246 JUPITER. [§346 perceptible phases, but the edge which is turned away from thesun is usually sensibly darker than the other. According toZollner, the mean albedo of the planet is 0.62,… … Fig. 85. — Telescopic Views of Jupiter. 347. Atmosphere and Spectrum. — The planets atmospheremust be very extensive. The forms visible with the telescopeare nearly all evidently atmospheric. In fact, the low meandensity of the planet makes it very doubtful whether there isanything solid about it…
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