 | Baden Powell - Philosophy - 1855 - 560 pages
...star-showers. To give some idea of the magnitude of such masses, it may suffice to mention Encke's comet, which at a distance from the sun equal to that of the earth, occupied with its nebulosity a sphere greater than that of the whole moon's orbit; and the comet of... | |
 | Baden Powell - Cosmology - 1856 - 584 pages
...star-showers. To give some idea of the magnitude of such masses it may suffice to mention Encke's comet, which at a distance from the sun equal to that of the EARTH, AND MOON'S ORBIT. ENCKE'S COMET. (Relative Size.) earth, occupied with its nebulosity a sphere greater... | |
 | Astronomy - 1862 - 368 pages
...be therefore, in the motion of the perihelion, attributed exclusively to the terms in the formulae not depending on the longitude of this element, that...between Mars and Jupiter (distance from the Sun between 2' 20 and 3' 1 6) the total mass of the group will be about one third of that of the Earth. It is now,... | |
 | Bowdoin College - Science - 1870 - 428 pages
...whose hyperbolic trajectory were calculated by if. Petit, director of the observatory of Toulouse. At a distance from the sun equal to that of the earth, a body which owes its motion only to the attraction of the sun, could not have a velocity greater than... | |
 | Astronomy - 1909 - 1064 pages
...orbit of the comet for the Earth to meet them at all. There were two positions in which the comet was at a distance from the Sun equal to that of the Earth : on one side the distance from the Earth's orbit was 6 million miles, and on the other side it was... | |
 | Astronomy - 1917 - 498 pages
...— which is usually called the temperature of space. It is not difficult to see how this happens. At a distance from the Sun equal to that of the Earth a black body would take up a temperature of 280° absolute. Now suppose we have a body which can absorb... | |
 | John Henry Poynting - Physics - 1920 - 810 pages
...receive radiation from the sun. Temperature of a Planet under Certain Assumed Conditions when placed at a Distance from the Sun equal to that of the Earth. The real earth presents a problem of complexity far too great to deal with. I shall therefore consider... | |
 | 1954 - 814 pages
...receive radiation from the sun. Temperature of a Planet under Certain Assumed Conditions wJien placed at a Distance from the Sun equal to that of the Earth. The real earth presents a problem of complexity far too great to deal with. I shall therefore consider... | |
 | Astrophysics - 1917 - 892 pages
...sufficient to fix clearly the order of magnitude of the phenomena. First let us place the testing body at a distance from the sun equal to that of the earth. The radiating body then has an apparent diameter of 32' and we find In M= 12.1. Taking c= 14,350 micron-degrees,... | |
 | Astronomy - 1917 - 530 pages
...— which is usually called the temperature of space. It is not diliicult to see how this happens. At a distance from the Sun equal to that of the Earth a black body would take up a temperature of 280° absolute. Now suppose we have a body which can absorb... | |
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If the whole excess in the motion of the perihelion of Mars is attributed to a ring of asteroids situate at a distance from the Sun equal to that of the Earth, the total mass of these asteroids will be somewhat greater than that of Mars, and will be equal... 