Popular Astronomy, Volume 56Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1948 |
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... distance from the sun , a planet moves more slowly , at perihelion it moves more rapidly , exactly in inverse propor- tion to the distance . Distance is primary , cannot be dependent on velocity , but velocity must be an effect of distance ...
... distance from the sun , a planet moves more slowly , at perihelion it moves more rapidly , exactly in inverse propor- tion to the distance . Distance is primary , cannot be dependent on velocity , but velocity must be an effect of distance ...
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... distance from the Sun , and the mean distance between them . A schedule showing the speed of the Earth per day , per hour , per minute and per second on its journey through space along with the Sun , on its orbit around the Sun , and on ...
... distance from the Sun , and the mean distance between them . A schedule showing the speed of the Earth per day , per hour , per minute and per second on its journey through space along with the Sun , on its orbit around the Sun , and on ...
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... distance of the nova very accurately . If the speeds are unequal the ellipses will be distorted and there will be a corresponding systematic error in the calculated distance . The relation is the same as that which connects the ...
... distance of the nova very accurately . If the speeds are unequal the ellipses will be distorted and there will be a corresponding systematic error in the calculated distance . The relation is the same as that which connects the ...
Contents
FEBRUARY 1948 | 144 |
The Planets in March 1948 Raymond H Wilson Jr 36 97 | 176 |
THE PLANETARY THEORY OF NEWTON A PANNEKOEK | 177 |
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