The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . uinoxes it is in eclipse about one fifth of the time,or double that proportion of the time between sunsetand sunrise. At the solstices it does not sufler revolves about its primary in 7 Iiours, 39 minutes, and14 seconds, and as Mars revolves on its axis in 24 hours,37 minutes, and seconds, it follows that the satel-lite appears to an observer on Mars to rise in the west andset in the east, its return to liis meridian occurring in Hhours, 6 min
The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. . uinoxes it is in eclipse about one fifth of the time,or double that proportion of the time between sunsetand sunrise. At the solstices it does not sufler revolves about its primary in 7 Iiours, 39 minutes, and14 seconds, and as Mars revolves on its axis in 24 hours,37 minutes, and seconds, it follows that the satel-lite appears to an observer on Mars to rise in the west andset in the east, its return to liis meridian occurring in Hhours, 6 minutes, and 23 seconds, but, owing to its closeproximity, its velocity will appear to be niueli greater. -\t astation on the equator of Mars(where the satellite alwayspasses through the zenith), it will, out of its 11 Imtus and (3minutes of period, pass only 3 hours and 20 minutes abovethe horizon against 7 hours and 4(> minutes below. phoca (foka), n. [= F. plioque = Sp. Pg. Xihocd, < L. phoca, < Gr. <paKii, a seal.] seal.— 2. [cyi.] [NL.] A genus of Phocidmor seals, formerly coextensive at least with the. Common Harbor-seal {Phoca fifulitm). family, now restricted to the section which isrepresented by the common harbor-seal, , and a few closely related species. Seeseali, and cut under (fo-kase-an), a. and )(. [< phoca +-aevini.] I. a. 1. t)t or pertaining to the ge-nus Pliiica iu a broad sense; phocine. II. w. A seal of the genus Phoca in a broadsense; a phocine. Phocsena 4449 plioca.] A genus of delphinoid odontocete ceta-ceans, containing the true porpoises, sucli as /*.comniiinix, as distinguished from the dolphinsproper. There are nbout (U vertehi-te, of which the cervl-cals are 7, mostly iinkylosed, and the dorsals IS: the teethare from 72 to liKl, aloTig nearly thewhole lencthof the jaw,with constric-ted necks ; the symphysis of the mandil)le isvery short, and the rostral is not lonper than the cranialsection o
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