A popular handbook and atlas of astronomy, designed as a complete guide to a knowledge of the heavenly bodies and as an aid to those possessing telescopes (1891)
Peck, William, Sir, 1862-1925 · New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 110
th, or any of the larger members of the solar system. Outside the rings, there rcA^olve eight large satellites, or moons (see Plate 14). The smallest of these isthought to have a diameter about one-half that of our moon; Avhile the largest is undoubtedly as large as thesmall planet Mercury. As the… … THJS PLANETARY SYSTEM. 57 —a breadth which is nearly twenty times greater than the distance which separates our moon from theearth. At present, we have seen, Saturn is in a condition far too hot to be the abode of life. Yet though this iscertainly the case, his heat may be of the greatest…
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