Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 154
lest mean distance particles composing the dusky ring of Saturn, the inner satelliteof Mars is the only secondary body in the solar system knownto revolve round its primary in less time than the planet takesto turn round once on its axis, a seemingly strange relationwhich is easily accounted for by… … 114 Stars and Telescopes (1.457 in terms of the Earths mean distance) ; whilethat of Thule (279) is the greatest, amounting to 4.247on the same scale. The first four small planets werediscovered in the early years of the 19th century (thefirst, Ceres, on the 1st January 1801), and these areprobably…
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