Johnson, Gaylord · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 158
Peter,does Mars have conjunctions and phases too.^ No, said Uncle Henry, not in the same way.Mars path round the sun is outside of ours, andthat makes an important difference. Mercury andVenus are called inferior planets because theirpaths are inside that of the earth. Mars and allthe rest of Old… … You can easily see, explained Uncle Henry,that since the paths of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturnare outside of the earths, they can never haveinferior conjunctions for they never pass betweenthe earth and the sun. When any one of the superiorplanets. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune,gets in…
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