Word: marse
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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The planets are Mercury, Venus, the Earth. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn and Uranus and Neptune. Uranus was discovered by Herschel, and Neptune was discovered by references to a point obtained by calculation of irregularities in the motion of Uranus.
The asteroids are small planets revolving about the sun in orbits between Mars and Jupiter. Meteors are small bodies also revolving in determined orbits. and at the points where the earth meets orbits of meteors are produced "falling stars," when the meteors burn in the atmosphere of the earth.
Mars has two satellites, the inner of which is remarkable in that it rises in the west, its motion being very rapid. Jupiter has five satellites of which one was discovered last summer by Prof. Barnard of the Lick Observatory. The velocity of light was first determined by observation of...
Professor W. H. Pickering will watch the total eclipse of the sun next April, from the Andes. He is now at Harvard's station in Peru, making observations of Mars.
An extensive series of observations was also made upon Mars. More than forty minute black points were discovered, provisionally designated as lakes. The polar compression of the planet was also measured and appeared to be greater than that indicated by theory, which may be due to an excess of clouds...