planet.earth.distances.1970: Hartigan (1975) Planets and Moons
Description
From astonomical knowledge of 1970, a table of planetary moons
was compiled. This is the bottom portion of
Table 5.5 in Chapter 5 of Hartigan (1975) on page 122.
Usage
data(planet.earth.distances.1970)
Arguments
Format
A data frame with 8 observations on the following 5 variables.
name
a character vector for the name of the planet
distance
a numeric vector for its distance from the sun in thousands of miles
diameter
a numeric vector for its diameter in miles
period
a numeric vector for the period of its orbit in hours
mass
a numeric vector for the mass, relative to the earth