Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1913 — Earth’s Journey. [ARTICLE]

Earth’s Journey.

Our world’s journey In space is a long one, If we are to accept the conclusions of Dr. Turner of the University observatory of Oxford and Prof. H. C. Plummer, royal astronomer of Ireland. Recent astronomical work suggests that the sun and its planets form a single unit in a vast system, the stars in which, though separated by enormous distances, have a common center of gravity, and in response to gravitation -all move in unison like a stupendous machine. The paths of these stars, instead of being nearly circular, like those of the planets around the sun, are much like the oscillations of a pendulum. The calculations show that on this elongated course our sun must travel 4d0,000,000 years before completing a revolution, and that it passed near the center less than a million —perhaps not i more than 300,000 —years ago, and is' now on the outward stretch.