The pith of astronomy <without mathematics>; the latest facts and figures as developed by the giant telescopes; (1896)
Bayne, Samuel G. (Samuel Gamble), 1844-1924 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 74
rate ofeight miles a second. Its light is so brilliant that it casts ashadow. A man weighing 200 pounds herewould, if carried to Jupiter, turn thescales at 500 pounds. A web of cloth as long as from theearth to our moon would fall short ofencircling this great planet. Jupiteris flattened at the… … THE PLANET JUPITER AND ITS BELTS JUPITER 41 Its days are so short, in consequenceof the rapidity of its rotation, that itsyear contains 10,455 of them. As its axis is vertical, there are noseasons such as we have, the most of itssurface remaining in eternal spring. The clouds in the thick…
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