The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-12-03
4 SALT LAKE CITY. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 3 1859.

! Lam. ~ Ill l, o.
The same plano. They arc 10 small ~
i not TO be visible without q powerful
I telescope. The revolutions 81 these
satellites range from to 10 DAYS.
/ URASus Or Herschel, Is d globe Of
lS5,112 miles III diameter, rotating on
Its axis in I hours, and performing .
revolution round the sun, atthe dsssanee
4of one thousand eight hundred and
4 twenty-three millions oil miles, In
eighty -four of our years. The sun tol
i this remote planet must appear only .
j four hundredth part DC the size which
he bears in our eyes. Uranus has Six
satellites or moons, but they move ia q
contrary direction I'd that 81 all the
other planetary motions Wis., from
!. east to west. lg s3s y + Il 4
Il NEPTUNE; the existence on this planet
was ascertained BY calculation, III Sept.
1916, and il was detected al the first
search for ii. Having d diameter of
4 so, 900 miles, it ranks as the third
planet of our system III point of mag
nitude, it is nearly two thousand nine
hundred millions of miles from the sun.
Its year IS 16I Of ours, 81 60, 1886
5days, and it has already been ascer-
tanned TO be attended BY. at least one
satellite, and To be surrounded By d,
ring like that Of Saturn.
have now given q short descrip-
I tiono all the planets and their satel-
4 htes; but there are also multitude Of
bodies, some as large as the eartll, cal
lied GoMETs, which exhibit very peculiar
Ephenomena, and which belong to our
Il Solar System. The planets move
round the sun IN orbits nearly circular,
FEbut comets almost touch the sun In one
part of their orbit, and then stretch
out into space, thousands Of millions
|of miles. ii h. H: :... . !.
1 The TWIEKLING ST rs, Of which We
q see SO many every clear evening, do
d not belong to our solar system, but
d are themselves SO many suns to other
3 systems like ours. llss5
Each stnr is supposed to be the
centre OF its own system, and to have
planets, moons, and comets moving
round it at immense distances, like
those Of our solar system.
They are called fixed stars, because
they never appear to move; and are 80
3 distant, that althoughthe orbit Of the
Earth is twice ninety-three millions, OF.
!, q hundred and eighty-six millions of
miles across; and We are consequently
j . hundred and eighty-six millions OF
miles nearer to some stars at one time
Il than We are at another; yet the stars al
l. 4 ways appear in the same places.
4 The distance Of the nearest of tile
fixed stars cannot be less than thirty
n two billions Of miles; and they IRE all
!, of them doubtless as far distant from
each other. . !. 81:
The stars, as seen through o teles-
cope, are infinite in number, more than
| q hundred thousand have been reduced
to a catalogue; but with the naked eye,
!, not more than six or. eight hundred
stars can be seen; and on the clearest
might never moro than four or five
hundred 80 deceptive is the appear
ance when viewed hastily. .@s .:.:
The ancients, in order to find and
/, describe tho stars, classed them into
. figures Of men and beasts, called Con-
j, OSCILLATIONS, and there were fifty OF
these. The moderns have added
EtWenty-four others; SO that the celes-
I, tial globe, on which the stars are aceu-
5rately laid down us In the heavens, il
covered with the figures of those inn
aginary consultations. z ?. RS 5 !. 81
In the Zodiac, or part of the heavens
3 where the sun appears to move, there
Il we're twelve Of these consultations; as,
{ Aries, the Ram, 81 Taurus, the Bun, y
J, Gemifi. the Twins, nj Cancer. the Crab, q
/ Leo, the Lion, /; yHgor the Virgin, ~ Libra,
. The Balance, = ScofpiO, The Scorpion, N Sag
gittarids, the Archer, I !; CapIicOrnus, the Goat
i y Aquarius. the Water Bearer, = i Pisces, The
Fishes, NJ =: :s II.
i Or in verso, as follows: IL. 4,
I /" The ram. the bull, the heavenly flciHsi
Z And next Ihe crab, the lion shines, .s's,
;s$. The pir9iH sn6 the scales; 1. S. S.
The scorpion, archey; and sea.qOGt, -
. The man that holds the spaleg pot, ~
= f. And fish with glittering talisp
j The most snowy Of the consultations
is Orion, distinguished by his belt Of
. fbVas, okaIsa IN. ,.S,,. . :. K. hanaa III
/. these is Sirius, the brightest of the stars
and above, to the right, are the red
D star of the Bull, and the PIeiades Of