The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1892-03-11
BIGGEST OF PLANETS.
Compared to Which Our Earth Is
Mere Speck.
Jupiter'- Isnmen~ity-E'roi, bly, Not Vet
Inhabited by Int Ii:cnt I;cinEs-
Facts and CoujertUrrs a. to
Its Four Satellites.


.Jupiter's IEnmen-ity-I'roIr bly, Not Vet
Inhabited by Int HSrrt IcinSs-
Facis and Conjecture a. {"
Its Four Satellites.
OF an Ihc fioatin" islands which com
pose the celestial archipelago "a which
the earth belongs, tn planet cansr-
Grated from the r"motrNt ages - .'"pi-
ter the mighty, king "i gods and men.
Is the vaNte>t thc mo~t important and
the most majestic, says taIniii" iiam-
marion, the French Astronomical
writer in recent number Df the
Arena This colossal world Of Jupiter
has q diameter OF about 5000 mics
which >urPa>ScS that Of our earth by
more than eleven tunes.
The circumference Of lUpiteT's world
AT the equator j. about -,5.u}y IG.lrs-
The volume Of this giant exceed, taat
Of the carJh by Ill times hi- i'm
mensc globe seen at the diztauoc at
which We ar" situated trour tAc moon
would appear 10 rs with c-aI.eIcr
about forty times larger than L'EGt of
our satellite. and the surface 0i -r- disk
voud embrace ON the celestial vault
an extent I.GJD times greater thln OF
the full moon. This giant of the
worlds travels through space accom-
panied by rctinuc of feur SATELLITES
at mean distance of 4A', uOl.nau miles
from the sun. which Is as" times
greater than that OF The earth from the
same
Its orbit j. moro than one billion
miles in cZtcnt and through this it
passes IN four thou and 'h~er huDarc.
and thIrN-two days, or eleven years.
ten month and seventeen day such
i the year of this immrn~c -la'. In
order To complcts IL entire arnit dur
ing this period Il speeds around
the sun with a velocity OF seven han
drcd thousand miles day. or lit
tie more tnan eight miles second.
i hla Is little less than hall th- Te!oc-
lty OF the earth IN lis orbit l'U- II r.
Fo-Fe> on ItN axis with - very ,.rcs't
HWlijneSN' Tor lis DAY and niEHt c'ia-
bIncd only last about min" hour a-l'.
hity-tivc mlnute~. In other w"r.,. IA
inha hitantN of Jupiter enjoy "aiE ii-r
hours OF real GzT, twilight InriGIrd
Il SaTH Na"t- An ilhs'olt2'.t oi
Jupiter should Gl" IN 'cai ah"o-. having
lived hut one year on tht planet. h
would he as old -as child "ho sHoUld
di" "n our globe 1T the ;.@r of eleven
years aud three hundred AID frHr,sei
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