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Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)

Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 62

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of all the heavenly bodies, the meteors aloneexcepted, its distance (about 60J), in terms of the radius of itsprimary body, exceeds that of all other known satellites in thesolar system. Only Japetus, the outer satellite of Saturn,,approaches this maximum, its distance being 59.6 times… … A PART OF THE MOON (WESTERN CENTRAL REGION) (From a photograph by the Brothers HBNRY at Paris, 23rd March 1S93. Age of the Moon,5 days 16 hours. The three large craters above the centre of the field are Theophilus(lowest one), Cyrillus, and Catharina ; and the diameter of cash is about 65 miles)

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