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" ... naturally given rise to much speculation respecting their origin and mutual relations. When, instead of the single planet which was expected to fill up the gap between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, Ceres and Pallas were found at very nearly the... "
Address ... at the anniversary meeting of the Royal society ... 1840 - Page 24
by Spencer Joshua A. Compton (2nd marq. of Northampton.) - 1840
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Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with ...

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...
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ..., Volumes 4-6; Volumes 1836-1845

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...
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volumes 13-14

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...
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Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries (Large Print)

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...
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The Scientific Papers

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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