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A short history of astronomy (1898)

Berry, Arthur,b. 1862 · London, J. Murray · leaf 449

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etsdiscovered, as well as of No. 323 (Bruaa), which comesnearest to the sun, and of No. 361 (not yet named), 37» A Short History of Astronomy [Ch. xiii. which goes farthest from it. All the orbits are describedin the standard, or west to east, direction. The mostinteresting characteristic in the… … Fig. S9.—Paths of minor planets. principle (chapter xi., § 243) be most effective : for instance,at a distance from the sun about five-eighths that of Jupiter,a planet would by Keplers law revolve exactly twice as fastas Jupiter ; and accordingly there is a gap among the minorplanets at about this…

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