Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 218
otion of comets and the formof their orbits. The enormous size of Jupiter givesit more influence than any other planet, and we arenot surprised that it should have seriously interferedwith some of the comets that belong to the SolarSystem. We have already seen that Bielas comet JUPITER. 213 was… … ORBITS OF NINE COMETS CAPTURED BY JUPITER. orbits as now determined, but they vary from age toage on account of disturbances of other planets. Butit is not likely that the comets themselves will everescape from the control of Jupiter. CHAPTER XVIII. SATURN. The system of Jupiter is a simple system…
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