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 282
t nine hundred millions of miles. When mostremote from each other, this distance of separation is in-creased by the whole diameter of the orbit of Saturn, orby eighteen hundred millions of miles, as will be readilyBeen from the figure, in which S represents the sun, URANUS. 263 A and B the places… … A and B is just equal to the interval between theirorbits, while this interval is increased as Uranus recedesfrom B up to the time that it reaches B, and on reachingthis point, Saturn being supposed to occupy the point A,the two planets will be separated by a distance of abouttwenty-seven hundred…
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