Lessons in astronomy including uranography. A brief intoductory course without mathematics (1896)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston, London, Ginn and company · leaf 174
lanets going. This is not so: not a singlemotion in the whole planetary system has ever yet been de-tected for which gravitation fails to account. 223. Map of the Orbits.—Fig. 43 shows the smaller orbitsof the system (including the orbit of Jupiter) drawn to scale, 223] SMALLER PLANETARY ORBITS.… … Fig. 43. — Plan of the Smaller Planetary Orbits. feet. The nearest fixed star, on the same scale, would be a mile anda quarter away. It will be seen that the orbits of Mercury, Mars, Jupiter,and several of the asteroids are quite distinctly out of cen- 164 INCLINATION OJ? THE UKB1TS. [§2-3 tre with…
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