Encke

In these queries he still clings to the idea of Encke, that the resistance is confined to the neighborhood of the sun and planets, like a ponderable fluid.

Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence T. Bassnett

It is the object generally known as Encke's comet, for, though

The Story of the Heavens 1876

Of these objects, by far the most celebrated is that known as Encke's comet, which merits our careful attention.

The Story of the Heavens 1876

It was proved by Oppolzer [1286] that if the comet of 1843 had entered our system from stellar space with parabolic velocity it would, by the action of a medium such as Encke postulated (varying in density inversely as the square of the distance from the sun), have been brought down, by its first perihelion passage, to elliptic movement in a period of twenty-four years, with such rapid diminution that its next return would be in about ten.

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

Sharp-eyed observers often spy the ‘‘Encke gap’’—the thin, minor ring around the outside.

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For this work she was paid the highest tribute by Gauss and Encke, among others.

Reaching for the Stars Peggy 2008

They drifted into the control room and floated above the sensor-generated hologram of the “herd. ” The “herd” consisted of approximately 3,000 mountain-sized blocks of ice that once were comet 2P/Encke.

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Two scoutships, Encke and Ikeya-Seki, did not count as fighting units; they carried one energy gun apiece, possibly useful against aircraft, and their sole real value lay in speed and maneuverability.

Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

On the other side of this token division, which reminded Ruiz%Sanchez irresistibly of the Encke division in the Saturnian rings, a thin circlet of Lithians took and passed out messages steadily and without a moment's break, handling the total load faultlessly-if one were to judge by the way the outer band was kept in motion-and without apparent effort, by memory alone.

A Case Of Conscience Blish, James 1953

Encke found on its periodical return that its mean distance was gradually getting less, and in order to account for this, he supposed that it was due to the existence of a resisting medium which enveloped the sun, and extended some distance into space.

Aether and Gravitation William George Hooper