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1 I, VII | was a fresh mystery. The orbit of this planet was assuredly
2 I, VII | assuredly interior to the orbit of the earth, because it
3 I, VIII | probable that, in its irregular orbit, it had been carried beyond
4 I, VIII | and Mercury are within the orbit of the earth, Venus rotating
5 I, VIII | that the earth, on her new orbit, was about to cross the
6 I, VIII | was about to cross the orbit of Venus. Throughout this
7 I, IX | alteration in the earth’s orbit was a question which would
8 I, X | has been moving in a new orbit, and from some unknown cause
9 I, X | that, having crossed the orbit of Venus, we have a good
10 I, X | chance of running into the orbit of Mercury.”~“And finish
11 I, X | undoubtedly entered upon a new orbit, but she is not incurring
12 I, X | the earth entered her new orbit half the sixty-four days
13 I, X | that she has crossed the orbit of Venus, hardly one-third
14 I, XII | the change in the earth’s orbit was a question that admitted
15 I, XII | the sun as to cross the orbit of Venus, the earth must
16 I, XII | was approximating to the orbit of Mars, that planet which
17 I, XII | been projected into a new orbit, which had the form of a
18 I, XIII | her projection upon a new orbit, were all things that gave
19 I, XV | curtailed. But how about the new orbit in which we are moving?”~
20 I, XV | through the solar system in an orbit that does not correspond
21 I, XV | correspond at all with the proper orbit of the earth.”~The hypothesis
22 I, XV | absorbed in it? Did its orbit correspond with the orbit
23 I, XV | orbit correspond with the orbit of the ecliptic? and was
24 I, XV | started on an independent orbit in the solar regions. Is
25 I, XV | that day we crossed the orbit of Mars.”~“Yes, true,” assented
26 I, XV | little planet, in her own orbit. Her speed, of course, we
27 I, XV | determined the perihelion of our orbit; but how about the aphelion?
28 I, XV | started, it would not have an orbit that must be immutable?”~“
29 I, XVI | which was moving in the orbit of the minor planets; but
30 I, XVII | exterior to the earth’s orbit, but almost concentric with
31 I, XVII | the planet Gallia upon its orbit, and committing the results
32 I, XVII | which she traveled along her orbit; facts to be observed in
33 I, XVII | that we are following an orbit decidedly elliptical, although
34 I, XVIII| heat of January, when the orbit of Gallia was being traversed
35 I, XVIII| true eccentricity of their orbit, might, for aught they knew,
36 I, XIX | determine, even if Gallia’s orbit were really elliptic, when
37 I, XX | remotest section of her orbit. The intensity of the solar
38 I, XXI | be projected even to the orbit of Jupiter, where the temperature
39 I, XXIV | had traveled along her orbit during the month of March
40 II, I | the true character of her orbit? had he established any
41 II, I | the assumption that the orbit is a parabola, it was not
42 II, III | procedure to assume the orbit to be a parabola. Ordinarily,
43 II, III | which is the focus of their orbit, and inasmuch as a parabola
44 II, III | portion of its pathway the orbit may be indifferently considered
45 II, III | the plane of the cometary orbit to the plane of the ecliptic,
46 II, III | crossed the terrestrial orbit.~These two elements being
47 II, III | in space of the comet’s orbit was determined.~3. The direction
48 II, III | of the axis major of the orbit, which was found by calculating
49 II, III | rotate along her proper orbit. But we, gentlemen, have
50 II, III | entailed upon my comet’s orbit, I have been compelled entirely
51 II, III | disappointed.~“Although the orbit of the earth was unaltered,”
52 II, III | of the comet into a new orbit altogether.”~“And may I
53 II, III | the elements of the fresh orbit?”~“Yes.”~“Then perhaps you
54 II, III | of January it crossed the orbit of Venus; that it reached
55 II, III | that it re-crossed the orbit of Venus; that on the 1st
56 II, III | on the 13th crossed the orbit of Mars; entered the zone
57 II, III | character of the comet’s orbit has been changed?”~“You
58 II, III | Did you imply that the orbit has ceased to be a parabola?”~“
59 II, IV | representing the elliptical orbit of the planet, accompanied
60 II, IV | path, extending beyond the orbit of Jupiter, lay clearly
61 II, IV | the progress along the orbit and the solar distances
62 II, IV | leagues farther along its orbit, and would have attained
63 II, V | Gallia’s advance along its orbit would be reduced to 22,000,
64 II, VIII | might be diverted into a new orbit, which would never be coincident
65 II, VIII | deflected from its elliptical orbit, and was rushing on in a
66 II, VIII | miles a minute along an orbit measuring 2,976 millions
67 II, VIII | the comet had crossed the orbit of Jupiter, and on the 1st
68 II, VIII | sufficiently complete that the orbit of Gallia did not coincide
69 II, VIII | that of the planet, the orbit of Jupiter being inclined
70 II, VIII | 1 degrees 19 mins to the orbit of the earth, with which
71 II, VIII | No!” said Procope; “the orbit of Saturn is remote, and
72 II, X | 000 miles an hour along an orbit measuring 5,490 millions
73 II, X | axis to the plane of his orbit, are each of the length
74 II, X | terrestrial sphere. Her orbit was circumscribed to little
75 II, XIII | at various points of the orbit; and for this purpose he
76 II, XIII | Gallia had re-crossed the orbit of Jupiter, but was still
77 II, XIII | 000,000 leagues along her orbit. At night the cold was still
78 II, XVI | again into space; but her orbit would undoubtedly be deranged,
79 II, XVI | 15th the comet crossed the orbit of Mars, at the safe distance
80 II, XVII | has mass to do with the orbit? Of how many comets do you
81 II, XVII | for us to come across her orbit at 42 minutes and 35.6 seconds
82 II, XVIII| leagues away, pursuing the new orbit into which it had been projected.
83 II, XIX | settled its period and its orbit. Discussions arose in scientific
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