 | |
| Fig. 1. | Fig. 2. |
 |
Fig. 3 |
Fig. 4 |
| Fig. 5 |
In the figures given above are shown the relative orbits of the planets, the orbits of Mars, the Earth, Venus and Mercury (fig. 1) being drawn to a scale twenty times that of the outer ones—Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter (fig. 2). The positions of the planets at ten-day intervals; their actual position on the 1st of January 1910 at noon, of their nodes and nearer apses, and the points when they are farthest distant north and south of the ecliptic, are also given. The relative sizes of the planets are also given, orientated in their true axial position with regard to the ecliptic. The nearer planets (and also the Moon) are separately compared (fig. 3); and then shown (on a smaller scale) in comparison w1th the more distant ones (fig. 4). Finally scale diagrams of the distances of the orbits of the satellite systems of Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter and Neptune are given (fig. 5).
