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THE PLANETS URANUS AND NEPTUNE.

to the statements made from time to time in the precedingpages :—

A diameter for the Sun of about 865,000 miles

an equatoreal

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Jupiter

V

88,000

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V

„ Saturn

)>

74,000

}>

an exterior

„ Saturn's Rings

>1

166,000

>7

a

>>

„ Neptune

U

35,000

55

j, Uranus

7}

32,000

55

an equatoreal

„ the Earth J

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7,926

97

a

„ Venus

U

7,700

55

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„ Mars

4,200

5)

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„ Mercury

3,000

THE SUN.

URANUS

NEPTUNE

SATURN

JUPITER

.MERCURY

EARTH

VENUS

MARS

Fij?, XCIV.—Comparative sizes of the Sun and the planets.