Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888 · New York, A.C. Armstrong and son · leaf 229
o which any one of the ring-outlines is thrown is nearly equal to half the larger axis.Since then the rings have been slowly closing up; and The ringed planet satI;rS\ itr at present the rings are so little open that the corre-sponding shorter axis, if it could be directly seen, wouldappear to be… … Fig. 30.—The planet Saturn in July and August, 1869. published in a table under the head Passages of theRings plane through the Sun between the years 1600and 2000, in my ire.^iise entitled Saturn and itsSystem. The Nauti:al Almanac for 1878, indeedmakes the passage of the rings plane through the…
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