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Estimated by groups of the first found and last found of the planetoids, the average eccentricity of the assemblage is about three times that of Jupiter and more than one and a half times that of Mars; and among the members of the assemblage themselves, some have an eccentricity thirty-five times that of others.
The hypothesis of Olbers, as propounded by him, implied that the disruption of the assumed planet between Mars and Jupiter had taken place at no very remote period in the past; and this implication was shown to be inadmissible by the discovery that there exists no such point of intersection of the orbits of the planetoids as the hypothesis requires.
Few people without a training in science can realise the huge isolation of the solar system. The sun with its specks of planets, its dust of planetoids, and its impalpable comets, swims in a vacant immensity that almost defeats the imagination.
Eight large or major planets, with their satellites, and a flock of minor planets or planetoids, are revolving round him as their common centre and luminary at various distances, but all in the same direction.
"If the planetoids were born of a single small ring, might not several planets be condensed from a large one?" "I see nothing to hinder it. A large ring might split into smaller rings, or condense in several centres." "Because it seems to me that might explain the distinction between the inner and the outer planets.
How happens this close kinship how happens there to be this family of comets so much like the planetoids and so much like one another, but so unlike comets at large?
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