Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 128
, and all having their oval pathways ly-ing on nearly the same flat plane in space. Then thebroad belt of busy little planetoids. Then the fourgiant planets,—Jupiter nearly five times as far as ourearth from the sun; Saturn nearly twice as far as Ju- 122 MORE ABOUT THE SOLAR SYSTEM. 123 piter;… … POSITION OF PLANETS INFERIOR TO JUPITER—SHOWING THEZONE OF THE ASTEROIDS. the system, with their accompanying moons, we havethousands of comets flashing hither and thither, withlong, radiant trains; and myriads of meteorites, gatheredoften into dense, vast herds or families, but also scat-tered…
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