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Questions about Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun.
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What is this 877-year cycle in the orbits of Jupiter & Saturn, and this multimillion-year cy...
On p. 282 there's a neat plot showing the approx. 900-yr Jupiter-Saturn "Great Inequality" over the past 2000 yrs. … Here's the gist of Smith's explanation, in my own words:
A unique line L (a "diameter") can be drawn in the plane of the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn, passing through their points of least- and greatest …
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What is this 877-year cycle in the orbits of Jupiter & Saturn, and this multimillion-year cy...
book The Theory That Would Not Die (by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne, 2011) states the following on page 28:
He [Pierre-Simon Laplace] used other methods between 1785 and 1788 to determine that Jupiter and Saturn … What exactly happens every 877 years in the orbits of Jupiter & Saturn, and every so many millions of years in the lunar orbit? …
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