The Life and Death of Planet Earth
Ward and Brownlee, a geologist and an astronomer respectively, combine their knowledge of how the critical sustaining systems of our planet evolve through time with their understanding of the life cycles of stars and solar systems, to tell ...
Why Isn't Pluto a Planet?
For many years, it was accepted as fact that our solar system had nine planets.
Famous Horses of America
... Planet's sire was Revenue , by imp . Trustee out of Rosalie Somers , by Sir Charles , who was bred and owned by Hon . J. Minor Botts , of Virginia , and was not only a great racehorse himself in his day , but the sire of many renowned ...
Protostars and Planets VI
... planets with their parent pro- toplanetary disk , which is the scope of this chapter . Planet - disk interactions play a prominent role in the orbital evolution of young forming planets , leading to po- tentially large variations not ...
Extra-Solar Planets
... planet systems can also benefit from intensive radial velocity campaigns. Remember that studies of the dynamical evolution of multiple planet systems are typically limited by the uncertainties in the planet masses and orbital parameters ...
Encyclopedia Britannica
... planet are less strongly marked , because the lines from the planet to the earth and sun never increase to a right angle . The result is that although the appar- | ent disk of Mars is sometimes gibbous in a very marked degree , it is ...
Good Words and Sunday Magazine
... planet . In the comparison of star with star , we came to the conclusion that the sun was not the largest star ; indeed , that it was neither so big nor so bright as many of the other stars in the heavens . The test of bigness and of ...
Chambers's encyclopædia
Chambers W. and R., ltd. PLANETS . planets . The name planet is of considerable anti- quity , and was applied to these dependents of the sun to distinguish them from the myriads of luminous bodies which stud the sky , and which present ...
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
... planet Ju- piter is necessarily to be regarded as an in- habited world merely because the only planet we are actually acquainted with is inhabited . The latter circumstance may be an excellent reason for regarding Mars or Venus as the ...
Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society
... planet stood out on the Sun's disk with a clear and sharp outline , with a luminous appearance or halo outside it , about one - third of the diameter of the planet being of a greenish yellow , the outer edge being of an orange shade ...
Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences
... planet perceptibly flattened at the poles , satellites near enough to be free from much solar disturb- ance must ... planet , must revolve nearly in the plane of the planet's orbit . Thus the two satellites of Mars , the four ...
The Herald of the Cross
... Planet - Soul and all the Souls upon the Planet , slumbered . There was no power left in Judah , nor Soul in the Children of Israel , nor any life within Jerusalem , so desolated was the once Holy City . The City was encompassed with ...
The American Catholic Quarterly Review ...
... planet , is difficult to conceive , because its average supply of light and heat is nearly seven times the earth's ... planet is said to be in inferior conjunction with the sun . This occurs May 9th . The planet then passes across ...
Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society
... planet . The Sun's light diminished till nothing but the silvery ring of light around the planet was left , and this ring was carried out on the sky by the slow motion of the planet . 3h 54m 25 ° 47 to 3h 54m 26 47. Probable Internal ...
The Messenger
... Planet A. Seed - Manu on Planet G. Root - Manu on Planet A. 4th Round . Seed - Manu Manu on Planet G. Sâvarna . > 5th Round . Root - Manu on Planet A. Daksha - Sâvarna . 5th Round . Seed - Manu on Planet G. Brahma - Sâvarna . 6th Round ...
California. Court of Appeal (2nd Appellate District). Records and Briefs
... Planet's counsel immediately warned Mr. Wegis that the fraud claim was baseless , and would result in sanctions . RT 692 : 17-20 . Mr. Wegis pressed forward , so Planet's counsel re - interviewed all the people involved in the purchase ...
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
... planet is visible . The scale on which the whole system is constructed is best seen in a diagram of concentric circles , showing the limits of the planet's body and of the successive rings . Such a diagram , with explanatory notes , is ...
The Sidereal Messenger
... planet , they cannot be more than 1000 , and are probably less than τοόου . The satellites of Uranus have also been assiduously observed at Washington , so that at present the Uranian system is probably as accurately determined as the ...
Littell's Living Age
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell. planet's surface . In this case , assuming | did they accord with the aspect of the ( which , however , is extremely improbable ) planet . Other views showed less exact that the planet is in the same ...