planet.earth.distances.1970 {cluster.datasets}

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)

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

Details

None.

Source

Moore, P. (1970). The Atlas of the Universe, Rand McNally, New York.

SPAETH2 Cluster Analysis Datasets http://people.sc.fsu.edu/~jburkardt/datasets/spaeth2/spaeth2.html

References

Hartigan, J. A. (1975). Clustering Algorithms, John Wiley, New York.

Examples

data(planet.earth.distances.1970)