TABLE IX.--DIMENSIONS OF THE NINE NEBULÆ, WITH THEIR DIAMETERS AND REGIONS OF GREATEST DENSITY COMPARED WITH THE DIAMETERS OF THE ORBITS OF THE PLANETS FORMED FROM THEM. ----------+--------------+---------------------------+ | Nebula. |Region of greatest Density.| | | | Name of |--------------+-------------+-------------+ Planet. |Outer Diameter| Diameter | Radius | | in Miles. | in Miles. | in Miles. | ----------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ | | | | Neptune | 6,600,000,000|5,238,332,000|2,619,166,000| | | | | Uranus | 4,580,000,000|3,635,146,000|1,817,573,000| | | | | Saturn | 2,672,000,000|2,120,766,400|1,060,383,200| | | | | Jupiter | 1,370,800,000|1,088,003,960| 544,001,480| | | | | Asteroids | 744,000,000| 590,512,800| 295,256,400| | | | | Mars | 402,000,000| 319,067,400| 159,533,700| | | | | Earth | 234,620,000| 186,217,894| 93,103,947| | | | | Venus | 160,210,000| 127,158,677| 63,579,339| | | | | Mercury | 103,230,000| 81,933,651| 40,966,825| +------------------------------------------+ | Had the position of Neptune been normal, | | the above data for him and Uranus would | | have been as under. More or less. | +------------------------------------------+ Neptune | 8,299,786,830|6,587,540,800|3,293,270,000| | | | | Uranus | 5,144,439,613|4,083,042,000|2,041,521,000| ----------+--------------+-------------+-------------+ ---------+---------------------------+------------------------------+ | Orbit of Planet. | Region of greatest Density | | | compared with Orbit. | Name of |-------------+-------------+-----------+-----------+------+ Planet. | Diameter | Radius | Within, | Without, | Per | | in Miles. | in Miles. | (Miles.) | (Miles.) | cent.| ---------+-------------+-------------+-----------+-----------+------+ | | | | | | Neptune |5,588,000,000|2,794,000,000|174,734,000| | 6·26| | | | | | |