| William Godwin - 1831 - 504 pages
...discovered Pallas in 1802. nearly in the same place where he had observe Ceres a few months before, to conjecture that they were fragments of a larger planet, which had 1;; some unknown cause been broken to pieces. I<follows from the law of gravity, by which tl: planets... | |
| 1839 - 826 pages
...nearly the same distance from the sun as Ceres (which had been discovered in the preceding year) led Olbers to conjecture that they were fragments of a larger planet, which might have been scattered by some great-catastrophe, and that, probably, some other portions of the... | |
| Royal Astronomical Society - 1853 - 584 pages
...Ceres and Pallas were found at very nearly the same mean distance from the sun, Olbers threw out the conjecture that they were fragments of a larger planet which had been rent asunder by some internal convulsion, and that many more such fragments probably existed. If this... | |
| William Godwin - 2006 - 646 pages
...discovered Pallas in 1802, nearly in the same place where he had observed Ceres a few months before, to conjecture that they were fragments of a larger planet, which had by some unknown cause been broken to pieces. It follows from the law of gravity, by which the planets... | |
| 576 pages
...Ceres and Pallas were found at very nearly the same mean distance from the sun, Olbers threw out the conjecture that they were fragments of a larger planet which had been rent asunder by some internal convulsion, and that many more such fragments probably existed. If this... | |
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