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of mean distance, which led to the assertion
of a resisting medium in space until a better
explanation could be found.[3]
Since that date fourteen comets have
been found with elliptic orbits, whose aphe-
lion distances are all about the same as Jupiter’s
mean distance; and six have an aphelion
distance about ten per cent, greater than
Neptune’s mean distance. Other comets are
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