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THE PLANET MARS.—This planet came to opposition with the sun on the morning of March 15. On that date Mars was about sixty-one million miles distant from the earth, and had an apparent diameter of a little more than fourteen seconds of arc. The planet is now situated in Leo, on the eastern border, and moving to the W.N.W.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 101, 52–53 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/101052a0
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