New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-12

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Jupiter. Saturn and yenus the three Jaroaat ard
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nose prinahl planets oi our soiaf system are now
to pc seen on every clear evening in their most at
tractiye phases The following regarding Saturn.
which we AXE from the New York Trihnne nj tho
dat ,v;,l he found uuusua,lv intereet;rg. -
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mno ioohs sooa ior .se n,sI
u.,e upon oa.uh ha uu,.eu ~ nis ring 9l ngnt
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fleMlsss on H. es : ueu ~ ioseiy hsns,
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lnis FORM =. wonufs Jus psauH y9hue. paae stal
;a;o AZ ar, that 1a1 h;ddam sh;nI SUI
p,o.o W a syrSS at ~ - ~ ldoa
lusue peaiAs MAJ solsness anas Iepese. Mhat
,t ~ ",;s;4pp .h;,s ~
"hat an aitogetner eA4uislee 'iiiiis OIL eeau1y!
Jupiter Journeys around me sun At an amazing
distance outside the earths orbit, but the path O.
Saturn IS nearly Twice as lar. one hundred mil
lions, i've hundred millions and nine hundred mil
lions represent nearly the relative distances rom
the sun OF THESE planets. we nave 70 resort 10
device to think OF such astonishing distances a
cannon Dali snoI from the sum ana hylng az tne
UNIFORM rate Of nve hundred mules an houf, would
require apont twenty years 70 feach ae eaftn, anu
TWO hundred 10 reach saturn
It will be supposed that long " II is allowed
around the sum- for its path is no less than twenty
eight hundred millions of miles in extent. While
it is plodding on at the rate of about twenty thou
sand miles an hour, it sees the earth continually
passing In its annual circuit going at the rate of
some sixty-nine thousand miles an hour, and gain
ing the goal twenty mine times and half Of another
while its far off competitor is completing single
revolution!
Saturnian child horn in the season Of rosas
will he thirty wears old terrestrialIv sneak;np he
fore the ronnd of seasons shall have been comnlet
Cd and brought back 10 ii its birth.time 8owers
We must sunpose the poetic faculty to have fits
and starts of out cropping at long separated periods
of life there or ts seasonal Arrangement ~ Saturn
will compei the Muses. TO be very martial in their
Gifts Of song. For the inspiration Of sprinr time
will come to the child born In spring. after II has
passed the poetic period of its life and has become
we'll established in business: while the infant horn
in antumn will find when first love il budding in hid
hosom MAT flowers are budding too and far seven
long wears (terrestrial9 he will sing of nothing but
the reign Of lovely June But stope has Saturn any
Alterations Of seasons at all? Certainly. His
ennator ia inclined to the nlane of his orbit in
abont twenty.seyen degrees. that of the earth
heinp not far different viz: twenty-thrpe and q
half lfs ~. - N''' - y '''N :
saturn ID the remotest of the five old planets
and mnch the largest after Jupiter baing eight
hundred and fifty times larger than the earth.
thouph nv no means so MANY times heavier. Indeed
the Tesults of observation and calcnation ma re.
sneet the density of This nlanet are startling II ia
fapnnd IL he about half 81 heavy as IN canal bnk
of water. or about twice that of cork What sort
Of Inhabitants such state Of things can sustain is
no easier imagined than described The author of
the aPuraIity of Worldsi speaks of them as likely
To be ssaoueous gelatnous creatures too sluggish
| almost to be deemed alive, floating on their ice
| cold waters. shrouded forever by their humid
skies That Saturn is enyeloped in yapor apnears
| from several cloudy streaks which engrdle bis
snbere naralel to his equator analogous ia those
| cn ronsnicnons an Jupiter,s disc
| In common with the other great planets, Saturn
| has a day of about ten hours. This furnishes a
remarkable contrast between the four small and
the four large planets-the former having, alike,
day of about twenty-four hours. IF the case was
reversed if wouId not seem at all singular. Brt
that planets like Jupiter and Saturn, the former
having a volume of some twenty-eight thousand.
and t6e latter some seventeen thousand times that
of Mercury. should vet whirl round on their axes
in two.fifths of the time which the little planet
needs, seems unaccountable. The effect of this
rand rotation is apparent in the lattened discs Of
ali the larger planets. The equatorial diameter of
saturn Il some eight Thousand miles greater than
fine nolar in consequences. that of the earth benp
only twenty.seyen miles greater from the same
cause of axial rotation
The great interest attaching to this planet is due
to the Splendid luminous ring which encrcles it in
the plane of its equator. What it is how it came
there: what keeps it in position: what immediate
purpose it serves no man can tell Maupertus
thought it was the tail of a comet which the plan
cts attraction had compelled to circulate round
him. Il probably suggested to Sir William Her
schel his famous NebuIar Hypothesis which LapIace
adopted and deyeloped SO elahorately; or at any
rate seconded the suggestion which the sight Of
unresolyed nebulm started in his mind, Indeed if
the solar system was evolved according to this fas-
cinating theory. we behold wonder hung up into
the heavens for all men to see sample Of satel-
lite Inst as it has been soughed OF BY the primary
and before rolling itself up into moon In fact,
we see God at work forming worlds, as centuries
roll by: but that need not sartle u.s. for it is as
easy for Him to make world as to make flower,
which we see him doing constantly, without ever
thinking that it the creative hand of God directly