SYNOPTICAL TABLES.
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Volume, | 1.000 |
Mass (Sun's = 1), | 0.0000028173 |
Density (water = 1), | 5.6747 |
Diameter, mean, in miles, | 7916 |
Diameter |
7898 |
Diameter |
7924 |
Circumference in miles, | 25,000 |
In one second of time bodies fall, latitude of London, in feet, | 16.835 |
Centrifugal force at equator (gravity = 1), | 0.00346 |
Times rotation requires to be increased to neutralise gravity at equator, | 17 |
Period of rotation in sidereal hours, | 24 |
Length of a mean solar day in sidereal time, | 24h. 3m.- 56s..55 |
Length of a |
23h. 56m. 4s.09 |
Daily acceleration of sidereal time in mean solar time, | 3m. 55s..09 |
Greatest difference between the mean and apparent solar time, | 16m. 16s. |
Greatest height of mountains in miles, | 5 |
Axis of the poles (axis of diameter of equator = 305), | 304 |
Greatest depth of ocean in miles, | 9 |
Mean distance from the Sun (Earth's radius = 1), | 23,984 |
Mean distance from the Sun |
95,000,000 |
Distance at perihelion (mean distance = 1), | .9832 |
distance at |
1.0168 |
Eccentricity (semi-major axis = 1), | 0.016783568 |
Sidereal revolution in mean solar days. | 365d. 6h. 9m. 9s..6 |
Anomalistic revolution in mean solar days. | 365d. 6h. 13m. 49s. |
Tropical revolution in mean solar days, | 365d. 5h. 48m. 49s..7 |
Interval between vernal and autumnal equinoxes, | 186d. 11h. 34m. |
Interval between autumnal and vernal equinoxes, | 178d. 18h. 7m. |