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ASTRONOMY.
(19S.) TABLE I. Of the Planets , the Solar Parallax being estimated at 8"-| agreeably to the best Observations of the two last
Transits of Venus.
Planets.
Tropic
Revolution.
Sidereal
Revolution.
Anomalistic
Revolution.
Mean SynodicRevolution.
Epoch ofMean Place,1800, atGreenwich.
Proport,mean (list,fr. O, the0 being 1.
Mean (list,from © inmillions ofmiles.
Proportionof bulk, the0 being 1.
d. h. 111. s.
d. h. m. s.
d. h. m. s.
d. h. m. s.
0 l It
S im
V? 9 53 37,4
1384462
Mercury
87 23 14 32,7
87 23 15 43,6
87 23 15 53,1
115 21 3 22,11
® IS 9 5,7
0,38710
37
0,064558
V enus
224 1ft 41 27,5
224 16 49 10,6
224 16 48 42,7
583 22 6 52,13
SI 25 8 23,7
0,72333
69
0,89025
Earth
365 5 4S 4S
365 6 9 11,6
365 6 14 37,0
— — _ _
25 9 5 3 37,4
1,00000
96
1,00000
Moon
27 7 43 4,7
27 7 43 11,5
27 13 18 33,9
29 12 44 2,83
5 33
1,00000
96
0,02036
686 22 18 27,4
686 23 30 35,6
686 23 52 27,4
779 22 28 37,27
HI 22 33 56,5
1,52369
146
0,1406
Ceres
1681 9
2,63758
250
0,0000081
Pallas
1703 17 doubtful
2,84210
270
0,0000026
Juno
44 years, circiter 44 years, circiter
3,00000
285
0,0000027
d. h. m. s.
d. h. m. s.
Jupiter
4330 14 39 2,0
4332 14 27 10,8
4332 20 42 32
398 19 12 54.15
n 21 4S 44,1
5,20279
497
1281
10746 19 16 15,5: 10759 1 51 11,2
‘10762 23 10 11,2
378 2 12 38,17
a 3 5 9,2
9,54072
911
995
Herschel'30589 8 39 0 1
30689 0 29 0
'30674 2 56 0
369 16 31 45,4 Irrji 23 29 12,0
19,03180
1823
80,49
Planets.
Greatest dia-meter asseen from ©
Least diame-ter as seenfrom 0
Diameteras seen atmean (list. 0from 0
Diameter,the 0 being1
Least distancefrom 0 in Eng-lish miles.
5Jean distancefrom 0 inEnglish miles.
Greatestdistancefrom 0 inEnglish miles.
Sun
t n
32 35,6
1 II
31 31,0
t n
32 3,3
111,45
93909050
95513794
97118538
886473,3
Mercury
12
5,3
6,9
0,4012
58540512
95513794
132487077
3191,1 .
Venus
57
9,14
16,547
0,9593
26425554
95513794
164602034
7630,3
Earth
Moon
33 37
29 28,0
17,2
4,696
1,0000
0,2731
222920
239981
254084
7954
2172,2
27
5,6
8,943
0,5199
50019873
145533667
241047462
4135,3
Ceres
1
0,45
1,6
0,0201
155000000
250000000
345000000
160
Pallas
0,5
0,24
0,9
0,0138
175000000
270000000
365000000
110
Juno
0,5
0,25
1,0
0,0149
190000000
285000000
385000000
119
Vesta
J upiter
0,5
40
27,1
3 6,82
10,862
401251495
496765289
502279083
86396,3
18
14,6
2 51,71
9,9830
815627647
911141442
1006655236
79404,8
42
34,0
6 40,65
23,294
815525205
911141442
1006757678
185280,5
Heischd
4
3,6
1 14,52
4,332
1727061434
1822575228
1918089022
1 34456,7
Planets.
Quantity ofmatter, the0 being 1.
Hourly
orbiticalmotion inEnglish miles.
Eccentricity,
the 0’s (list,from 0 beingdivided into100000 parts.
Greatestorbit- equa-tion, 1800.
Annual var.of orbit-equation.
Time of Ro-tation uponaxis.
Inclination otequator uponthe ecliptic.
Inclinationof axisto the orbit.
Inclination
ofplanetaryorbit to theecliptic ofthe Earth .
O
*
d. h. m. s.
O 1
O / V
O
/ V
Sun
351886
25 14 8 0
7
20 axis
Mercury
0,1668
111256
7955,4
23
40
0
4- 0,02
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
7
0 0
Venus
0,9500
81398
498
0
47
20
— 0,25
0 23 21 0
Uncertain
Uncertain
3
23 35
Earth
1,0000
75222
1681,395
1
55
30
- 0,188
0 23 56 4
23 28
66 32 0
Moon
0,015107
2335
7
39
0
27 7 43 5
1 43
88 17 0
5
8 30
Mars
0,2025
56212
14183,7
10
41
35
+ 0,37
1 0 39 21f
28 42
61 18 0
1
51 0
Jupiter
330,60
30358
25013,3
5
30
38
4 - 0,5536
0 9 55 33
3 22
86 38 0
1
18 56
Saturn
103,69
22351
53640,4
6
26
42
— 1,11
0 10 16 1
30 0
60 0 0
2
29 50
0 10 32 15
30 0
60 0 0
31
20 ring
11 erschel
17,74
15846
90804
5
21
3
- 0,11
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
0
46 26
Planets.
Greatest
el ong. of infer.& parallax ofsuperior plan.
Least
do.
Great.
numb, ofdays
retrograd
Least
do.
Greatestangle ofretrograd.
Least do.
0’s and I) ’s
apogee, andplanet’s aphelion(Jan. 1, 1800.)
Annual
motion
aphelion
(stars)
Do.
(equin.)
Place of Si(Jan. 10,1800.)
O f
0 t
d. h.
d. h.
O / H
O / U
s. 0 ' *
s. 0 ’ "
Sun
3 9 29 3
Mercury
28 20
17 36
23 12
21 12
15 43 57,9
9 21 56,3
8 14 21 1
+ 6,58
56,91
1 15 56 48
Venus
47 48
44 57
43 12
40 21
17 12 15,4
14 34 57,9
10 8 36 12
- 1,40
48,53
2 14 52 8
Earth
9 9 £9 3
+ 13,32
63,65
Moon
1 15 27 7,4
1 3 15 52,6
Mars
47 25
36 23
80 15
60 18
J9 34 37,9
10 6 11,5
5 2 24 14
- 15,57
65,90
1 18 1 58
Jupiter
11 52
10 23
122 12
116 18
9 59 22,9
9 51 30
611 8 21
- 6,50
56,83
3 8 24 7
Saturn
6 22
5 43
138 18
135 9
6 54 44,4
6 40 39,5
8 29 4 10
- 15,91
66,24
3 21 56 40
5 17 27 eclip
llermhel
3 7
152 15
150 0
3 53 0
3 26 0
11 17 20' 49
+ 2,57
52,9 '
2 12 50 58