But they were anticipated by Piazzi, an Italian, who found the new planet, by accident, on the first day of the nineteenth century, moving at a distance from the sun represented by the number 2.
It adds another difficulty to that offered by the remarkable changes of distance from the sun, and consequent variations of heat, which we have already discussed.
When we say a planet’s distance from the sun is thirty astronomical units, we mean it is thirty times farther than the earth is from the sun.
At such times, of course, the amount of heat is more or less according to the planet’s distance from the sun; but all the time it is very great.
Leibnitz also inclined to the opinions of Kepler and Otto von Guericke, that the planets increase in volume in proportion to their increase of distance from the Sun.
See Kepler, on the increasing density and volume of the planets in proportion with their increase of distance from the Sun, which is described as the densest of all the heavenly bodies; in the 'Epitome Astran.
On that day the comet and the planet were only separated by an interval of about one-thirtieth of the earth's distance from the sun, i.
If the law of gravitation held exactly at so great a distance from the sun, there must be some perturbing force acting on it besides all those known ones which had been fully taken into account.
The planets present great diversities among themselves, in respect to distance from the sun, magnitude, time of revolution, and density.
But the earth's distance from the sun is constantly varying, which shows that its orbit is not a circle.
Our globe is situated at such a distance from the sun, as exactly suits the animal and vegetable kingdoms.
In high latitudes, where the twilight is long, Mercury can seldom be seen with the naked eye, and then only when its angular distance from the sun is greatest.
He proceeds to select his planetary globes, which he is now required to marshal in their appropriate order of distance from the sun.
Though crossed by latitude forty, and notwithstanding Jupiter's distance from the sun, the southern side had a very luxuriant vegetation that was almost semi-tropical.
To take only the initial standard of astronomical measurements--the earth's distance from the sun.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "distance from the sun" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
