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The Solar System

been observed, we find, as we go out from the Sun, clusters of them at first, representing, respectively, Jupiter's, Saturn's, Uranus', and Nep-

FIG. XVI. COMET APHELIA
FIG. XVI. COMET APHELIA

tune's family; but the clusters do not stop with Neptune. Beyond that planet is a gap, and then at 49 and 50 astronomical units we find two more