Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1917 — Velocity of Sun. [ARTICLE]

Velocity of Sun.

Professor Boss figures the transcontinental velocity of the sun through space at 14.9 miles per second. He regards the speed formerly obtained by spectroscopic methods, namely, 12.4 miles per second, as subject to systematic error.