A text-book of general astronomy : for colleges and scientific schools (1888)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston ; London : Ginn & Company · leaf 474
0000 times the astronomical unit, the velocity of the sunsmotion in space comes out about five units per year, that is, aboutfive-sixths of the earths orbital velocity, or nearly sixteen miles persecond ; but this result must be considered as still very uncertain. 1 Theoretically, of course, the… … The Earths Motion in Space as affectedby the Suns Drift. It is to be noted that this swift motion of the solar system, while ofcourse it affects the real motion of the planets in space, converting them intoa sort of corkscrew spiral like the figure (Fig. 217), does not in the leastaffect the…
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