Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 272
ide diameter about 173,000miles, and differ somewhat in other respects. 256 SATURN. [§ 360 While the plane of the ring is sweeping over the earths orbit shecrosses the plane once or three times according to circumstances; usu-ally three times, causing two periods of disappearance. When theedge is… … Fig. 88. — The Phases of Saturns Rings. 361. Structure of the Rings. — It is now universally ad-mitted that they are not continuous sheets, either solid orliquid, but mere swarms of separate particles, each pursuingits own independent orbit around the planet, though all mov-ing nearly in a common…
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