Sentence:  The measurements made with the NRL 50 - foot reflector , which is altitude azimuth mounted , would have shown a systematic change with local hour angle in the measured intensities of <WSD>Venus</WSD> and Jupiter if a substantial part of the radiation had been linearly polarized . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'