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IN astronomical works the densities of the sun and planets are taken as the ratios of the masses to their apparent volume, the masses being determined by the periods of the bodies which revolve round them.
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MALLOCK, A. Planetary Densities and Gravitational Pressure. Nature 116, 14 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116014b0
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