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Identifier: astronomyforhigh00newc (find matches)
Title: Astronomy for high schools and colleges
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909 Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914, joint author
Subjects: Astronomy
Publisher: New York, H. Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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• • Pig. 74.—relative sizes op the planets. The relative apparent magnitudes of the sun, as seenfrom the various planets, is shown in the next figure. Flora and Mnemosyne are two of the asteroids. A curious relation between the distances of the planets,known as Bodes law, deserves mention. If to the nimi-bers, 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 96, 192, 384, 270 ASTRONOMY, each of whicli (the second excepted) is twice the preced-ing, we add 4, we obtain the series, 4, Y, 10, 16, 28, 52, 100, 196, 388. These last numbers represent approximately the dis-
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FlG. 75.—APPAEENT MAGNITUDES OF THE SUN AS SEEN FBOM DIF-FERENT PLANETS. tances of the planets from the sun (except for Neptwue^which was not discovered when the so-called law was an-nounced). This is shown in the following table : CHARACTERI8TIC8 OF THE PLANETS. 271 Planets. ActualDistance. Bode8 Law. Mercury 3-9 7-2 10-0 152 27-7 52-0 95-4 191-8 300-4 4-0 Venus 70 Earth 10-0 Mars 16-0 rCeres) 280 Jupiter 520 Saturn 100.0 Uranus 196 0 Neptune 3880 It will be observed that Neptune does not fall withinthis ingenious scheme. Ceres is one of the minor planets. The relative brightness of the sun and the variousplanets has been measured by Zollner, and the resultsare given below. The column per cent shows the per-centage of error indicated in the separate results : Sun and Ratio : 1 to Moon i 618,000 Mar:? 6.994.000,000 Jupiter 5,472,000.000 Saturn (ball alniic) \ 130,980,000,000 Uranus \ 8,486,000,000,000 Neptune I 79.620,000,000,000 Percent, of Brror. The differences in the density, si

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