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away from us that it ever can be; but when it is on the same side 

 of the sun as we and nearly in line with it and us, it is said to be in 

 "opposition." The planets whose orbits are nearer the sun than 

 ours are called inferior while those whose orbits are outside of ours 

 are called superior. 



The planetoids are some very little worlds, a company of them 

 that seem to occupy a space between the inner and outer planets, 

 the largest one of these is Ceres and is 177 miles through; but the 

 most interesting one because it is nearest to us and we are able to 

 observe it more closely is Eros and it moves around the sun in 643 

 days. Many of these tiny worlds have never been named, their 



Pig. 1. Venus in inferior conjunction. 

 Fig. 2. Venus in superior conjunction. 



Fig. 3. Mars in opposition. 

 Fig. 4. Mars in conjunction. 



