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ity of mean motion of apogee 19.43 22.17
Inequality of mean motion of nodes 9.24 9.0
The only serious discrepancy is the first,
which has been already mentioned. Con-
sidering that some of these perturbations
had never been discovered, that the cause
of none of them had ever been known, and
that he exhibited his results, if he did not
also make the discoveries, by the synthetic
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