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Show Neptun Measured Again. A German astronomer, Hcrr Wlrti of Strasburg, has made between December, De-cember, 1902, and March, 1903, fresh measurements of Neptune, tho most remote momher of tho solar system. He computes that tho diameter ot tho planet Is about 31,400 miles, about four tlmos that of the earth, but that Its density Is to that of our globe as 1.54 to 5.53. In other words, while the earth is Mvq and a half times as heavy as a Hphero of water of the samo dimensions, Neptune Is only one and a half tlnis the density of water. The lightest "t the planets Is Saturn, which would fnat lllte a ball of cork In an ocean big enough to hold It. London Telegraph. |