This comet, called after Encke, has showed in each of its returns an inexplicable reduction of mean distance, which led to the assertion of a resisting medium in space until a better explanation could be found.
CA or a line drawn from S to D is the mean distance of the planet from the sun.
Mercury revolves round the Sun at a mean distanceof 36 millions of miles.
In this light we may look for comets having a mean distance corresponding to the intervals of the planets, rather than to the distances of the planets themselves.
Regarding then, that a comet's mean distance depends on its mean atomic density, as in the case of the planets, the undue enlargement of their orbits by planetary perturbations is inadmissible.
The companion is only of the tenth magnitude, and revolves around Sirius in a period of about fifty years, at a mean distanceequal to about that of Uranus from the sun.
Stars of the second magnitude have a mean distance of fifty-eight light years, those of the third magnitude ninety-two years, and so on.
Kepler knew that the different planets had different periodic times; he also saw that the greater the mean distance of the planet the greater was its periodic time, and he was determined to find out the connection between the two.
This great globe revolves around the sun at a mean distance of no less than 2,800 millions of miles, which is about thirty times as great as the mean distance from the earth to the sun.
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