Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1908-08-16
THE PLANET JUPITER
IA Monster World, 1900 Tines
the Sire Of Ours.
wHlNLs WITH AWFUL SPEED.

" spins ArouH1 * UWob Fu4f7tt
Gait That Furleua Gale parpetuaI~
" Enslrelss ice Equator--lts Posal-
BILE lnhabltsnts and lie Moous.
II IL curious how little the Average
person knows about Jupiter He hna
heard a lot too much perhaps, about
Marx but that world. 1900 tlnea the
sine OF oura whiting In tho terrible
outer distance Of space with liz ave
moons. ils ia months yearly. known
as Jupiter u almost Il not quite mya-
terry,
10 the irst place. Jupiter according
20 some astronomers IL inhabited.
so are some Of Ia moons, IA tho
midst OF which che great planet spins
around ike a top At such tremendous
speed that Il causes around the euuaeor
a furious wind that blows porpetually
az rate of about 900 miles an hour
In the midst or this never ending.
bowling gale live tho jovIana some
astronomers say that because Jupiter
= 80 much bigger and heavier than
the earth 40 creature Of any weight
can support itself A man weighing
900 pounds on thla earth would, y ear,
ried 10 Jupiter. weigh 900 pounds. and
reasoning thuM they believe that nolbs
Inc bigger than a cat could stand %
this vast world.
Bot this ID no doubt q mistake. II
Jupiter stood slill or revOlved no faalog
than our earth al that astronomy aays
would bp trua and q terrestrial man
could not stand upoa ~ surface Eat
a. A fact the tremendous rate % ravo.
lutlon IL 90 much faster than the
carth's that IN spite % lla moustr0pe
size a turns about IN Ices than TEN
hours 20 against our twenty-seus
hours.
A. Il IN man % normal earthly
sine. n transported % tho equator Of
Jupiter would actually feel much
lighter than he doen hers on earth. b.,
cause the swift rotation " the planet
would alnost TIT hlm from hls feet
and throw him Into enc heavens. fla
would fepi 10 ilght that the 7c0 mile
an hour tornado that blows incgasani'
~ would plch him 70 and carry him
nF0apd ana ngound the planet liks .
upeck ~ dust
10 order % keep 90 biz feet tha
Joyinn man ~ woman would have ~
- about nfty feat tall Some 81 them
would eoubtleas reaeh TIE height of
nfiy.afe feci. Like ga blR bodies. ne
I0yian weaid have tendency 10 slow
ness ~ moti0a Having enru esatea
hlmacif. bs would spend 4 good twelve
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hilowed him less ihaa ~ hours fge
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TIE eeaas ~ IapiteF torn into fury
b. the hHFfieanes. would pay Ba atien.
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