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... Jupiter - sun system is about 30,000 miles above the sun's surface ( always in the direction of Jupiter , of course ) . If the sun and Jupiter were all that existed in the solar system , an observer from Alpha Centauri , say , though ...
... Jupiter - sun system is about 30,000 miles above the sun's surface ( always in the direction of Jupiter , of course ) . If the sun and Jupiter were all that existed in the solar system , an observer from Alpha Centauri , say , though ...
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... Jupiter and work out its mass and its distance from the sun without ever actually seeing it . Actually , though , the wobble on the sun imposed by Jupiter is still too small to detect from Alpha Centauri ( assuming their instruments to ...
... Jupiter and work out its mass and its distance from the sun without ever actually seeing it . Actually , though , the wobble on the sun imposed by Jupiter is still too small to detect from Alpha Centauri ( assuming their instruments to ...
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... Jupiter . In 1960 similar dis- placements were discovered for the star Lalande 21185 at Sproul Ob- servatory . It , too , had a planet eight times the mass of Jupiter . And in 1963 , the same observatory announced a third planet out ...
... Jupiter . In 1960 similar dis- placements were discovered for the star Lalande 21185 at Sproul Ob- servatory . It , too , had a planet eight times the mass of Jupiter . And in 1963 , the same observatory announced a third planet out ...
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