Popular astronomy : a concise elementary treatise on the sun, planets, satellites and comets (1865)
Mitchel, O. M. (Ormsby MacKnight), 1809-1862 · New York : Oakley & Mason · leaf 179
reappearance become readily explicable. The plane ofthe ring produced indefinitely, intersects the plane of theearths orbit in a straight line. This is called the lineof nodes of the ring. This line of nodes, remainingnearly parallel to itself, will manifestly move as the ringmoves, carried with… … SATURN, CINCINNATI OBS. SATURN. 161 Thus the ring, carried by the planet, will finally comeinto a position such that the sunlight will fall on neitherside, but on the edge of the ring only, and when in thisposition it is manifest that the plane of the ring passesthrough the sun. If, when in this…
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