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[ 38 ) a meteor which cannot be had on this earth. Pure metal cannot be found in a mine though it is available in a meteor. The meteors are ejected directly out of the sun and not out of the earth. From all this it can be assumed that the some clements as are found on this carth will also be found in the sun and the planels. The moleors also move round the sun , and, when they come close io the earth in the course of such revolution, they are drawn to the earth's surface by the force of grevilalion. According to Western scholars, the sun is chief and supreme among visible stars, but it is not a planet. Planets, according io them, are bodies which move round the sun, whereas, according io Eastern scholars, the sun also is a planel. The planels, Mercury, Venus, Earth. Mars, Jupiter, Seturn, Uranus, Neptune elc., move round the sun at increasingly grenter dislances. The noon (a salellite according to Western scholars, a planet according ło Eastern scholars) moves round the earth. The other planels also have their own salelliies. Comels are luminous substances which derive greator radiance from the glory of the sun. And all the plańels and satelliles above-mentionodshed their rays more or less upon the earth. As regards the size and configuration of the sun. Western scholars are of opinion that it is more than a million times bigger than the earth,