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Ethereal Medium — Comets — Do not disturb the Solar System — Their Orbits and Disturbances M. Faye's Comet probably the same with Lexel's - Periods of other three known Acceleration in the mean Motions of Encke's and Biela's Comets ...
Ethereal Medium — Comets — Do not disturb the Solar System — Their Orbits and Disturbances M. Faye's Comet probably the same with Lexel's - Periods of other three known Acceleration in the mean Motions of Encke's and Biela's Comets ...
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Later observations show that comets also move in conic sections . It consequently follows that the sun attracts all the planets and comets inversely as the square of their distances from its centre ; the sun , therefore , is the centre ...
Later observations show that comets also move in conic sections . It consequently follows that the sun attracts all the planets and comets inversely as the square of their distances from its centre ; the sun , therefore , is the centre ...
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... or , in other words , to determine the path of a celestial body when attracted by a second body , and disturbed in its motion round the second body by a thirda problem equally applicable to planets , satellites , and comets .
... or , in other words , to determine the path of a celestial body when attracted by a second body , and disturbed in its motion round the second body by a thirda problem equally applicable to planets , satellites , and comets .
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It is possible that the disturbances experienced by comets , which have already revealed the existence of this medium , may also , in time , disclose its rotatory motion . The form and position of the planetary orbits , and the motion ...
It is possible that the disturbances experienced by comets , which have already revealed the existence of this medium , may also , in time , disclose its rotatory motion . The form and position of the planetary orbits , and the motion ...
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But , if the fixed stars , comets , or any unknown aud unseen bodies , affect our sun and planets , the nodes of this plane will slowly recede on the plane of that immense orbit which the sun may describe about some most distant centre ...
But , if the fixed stars , comets , or any unknown aud unseen bodies , affect our sun and planets , the nodes of this plane will slowly recede on the plane of that immense orbit which the sun may describe about some most distant centre ...
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