| 单词 | inferior planet |
| 例句 | This system of course accounted accurately for the motions of the two inferior planets, whose nearness to the sun may have suggested their connection with it. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z Of the inferior planets, Mercury is so near the sun that it would be equally unfit for the residence of such beings. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z In studying the inferior planets, the circumstances in which we make our observations are so very similar with regard to each, that it is best to take them together. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language The varying appearances of the moon's disc during a lunation; also those of the inferior planets Venus and Mercury, as they revolve round the sun. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The other inferior planets have still less to show than the earth. Time and Tide A Romance of the Moon Eventually, perhaps, it would wipe out the four inferior planets, or perhaps it would be broken as it came within the Roches limit of that sun. Invaders from the Infinite The astronomers can tell us to the fraction of a second when the eclipses of the sun and moon and the transit of the inferior planets across the sun's disk will take place. The Last Harvest Let us begin by considering the various positions of an inferior planet, as seen from the earth, during the course of its journeys round the sun. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language When an inferior planet is situated in the same longitude as the sun, and has that luminary between it and the earth, it is said to be in superior conjunction. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It is evident that the following logograms form part of a correspondence between a young lady, formerly of Mercury, and her confidential friend still resident upon the inferior planet. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) On the inferior planets it probably had its day long ago, while it must be millions of years before it comes to the superior planets, if it ever comes to them. The Breath of Life Leaving the inferior planets, we come to a series of important and interesting objects. Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. From these considerations it will be seen at once that the inferior planets show various phases comparable to the waxing and waning of our moon in its monthly round. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language One of the inferior planets, and the second in order of distance from the sun. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. When Copernicus announced the true theory of the solar system, he said that if the inferior planets could be clearly seen they would show phases like the moon. Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work It has evidently disappeared from the moon, and probably from the inferior planets, and it is doubtful if it has yet appeared on any of the superior planets, save Mars. The Breath of Life An eclipse of the sun, or a transit of an inferior planet, is also much better seen in this way than by any other method of observing the solar disc. Half-hours with the Telescope Being a Popular Guide to the Use of the Telescope as a Means of Amusement and Instruction. When the inferior planet is on the far side of the sun from us, it is said to be in Superior Conjunction. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language One of the ancient inferior planets, and the nearest to the sun, as far as we yet know. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. But if you want to play Gulliver," answered Barbicane, "only visit the inferior planets, such as Mercury, Venus, or Mars, whose bulk is rather less than that of the earth. The Moon-Voyage The inferior planets are Mercury, Venus, the Earth, and Mars. God and my Neighbour It has probably vanished from the moon and all inferior planets, and it has not yet come to the superior planets, except maybe to Mars. Time and Change Piecing together the results given us at these more favourable views, we are enabled, bit by bit, to gather some small knowledge concerning the surface of an inferior planet. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language The extremities of a crescent moon, or inferior planet. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Meanwhile I repeat to myself what Littre said to me one day: "Ah! my friend, man is an unstable compound, and the earth an inferior planet." The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters He always talked down to us as though we were beings of another and inferior planet. Jeremy Unquestionably a sun-spot had been seen by earlier observers, and by them mistaken for the transit of an inferior planet. A History of Science — Volume 2 Now this would most certainly be the case were the orbit of an inferior planet in the same plane with the orbit of the earth. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language At a transit of an inferior planet over the sun, this term means the passing off of the planet from his disc. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The earth is a very inferior planet, decidedly. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters This caused a peculiar form of vegetation, such as is probably produced on the surface of the inferior planets, Venus or Mercury, which revolve nearer than our earth around the radiant sun of our system. The Underground City, or, the Child of the Cavern The first person known to have observed a transit of an inferior planet was the celebrated French philosopher, Gassendi. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language |
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