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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 — The ...
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 — The ...
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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 of a force extending indefinitely in space , and including all the ...
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 of a force extending indefinitely in space , and including all the ...
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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 and 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 and 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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Retrograde motion is occasionally met with in the comets and double stars . SECTION V. Lunar Theory — Periodic Perturbations of the Moon 03 SECT . IV . SATELLITES OF SATURN AND URANUS . 33.
Retrograde motion is occasionally met with in the comets and double stars . SECTION V. Lunar Theory — Periodic Perturbations of the Moon 03 SECT . IV . SATELLITES OF SATURN AND URANUS . 33.
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