 | John BRINKLEY (Bishop of Cloyne.) - Astronomy - 1836 - 334 pages
...intersects the plane of the earth's orbit, are called nodes. The node through which the planet passes from the southern to the northern side of the ecliptic, is called the ascending node, and the other the descending node. When an inferior planet is near one of its nodes at inferior conjunction,... | |
 | Mary Somerville - Physical sciences - 1846 - 496 pages
...zero : it is then said to be in its nodes (N. 55). The ascending node is that point in the ecliptic, through which the planet passes, in going from the southern to the northern hemisphere. The descending node is a corresponding point in the plane of the ecliptic diametrically... | |
 | Mary Somerville - Physical sciences - 1849 - 568 pages
...zero : it is then said to be in its nodes (N. 55). The ascending node is that point in the ecliptic through which the planet passes, in going from the southern to the northern hemisphere. The descending node is a corresponding point in the plane of the ecliptic diametrically... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - Astronomy - 1850 - 378 pages
...the points where its orbit intersects the ecliptic. The ascending node is that point in the ecliptic through which the planet passes in going from the southern to the northern hemisphere. The descending node is a point in the plane of the ecliptic diametrically opposite to the... | |
 | John Brinkley - Astronomy - 1871 - 344 pages
...intersects the plane of the . earth's orbit, are called nodes. The node through which the planet passes from the southern to the northern side of the ecliptic, is called the ascending node, and the other the descending node. When an inferior planet is near one of its nodes at inferior conjunction,... | |
 | Charles Joyce White - Astronomy - 1872 - 300 pages
...is callrd the line of the nodes. That extremity of the line through which the moon passes in moving from the southern to the northern side of the ecliptic...the ascending node, the other the descending node. Let the moon move on from M in the arc MB. When it descends to the ecliptic, it will meet it, not at... | |
 | John Ellard Gore - Astronomy - 1893 - 152 pages
...of a planet or comet cuts the plane of the ecliptic. The node at which the planet or comet is rising from the southern to the northern side of the ecliptic is called the ascending •node, and that at which the moving body is passing from the northern to the southern side of the ecliptic,... | |
 | Gershom Bradford - Navigation - 1918 - 188 pages
...are called nodes (corresponding with the equinoxes). The point crossed by the moon as it passes from southern to the northern side of the ecliptic is called the ascending and the other the descending node. The moon's axis is very slowly describing a circle in the heavens,... | |
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... orbits of all the planets, except Pallas, to the plane of the earth's orbit are small. The method of ascertaining the inclinations will be afterward shewn. The points, in which a planet's orbit intersects the plane of the earth's orbit, are called... 