Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1864-10-21

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root Of the distance Of Mars 2) to the square root Of
the distance of Mercury 10y.
The subioined tables of the veloctcs and distances
viii, now be readily understood. The known planets
nre distinguished by being printed in italics have
taken the liberty to give names to those that are un-
discovered but the existence and orbits Of which are
indicated by theory.
Amer the whole was divided into rings some Of the
rings became concentrated into large normal planets,
Int many Others especially in the interior parts of the
system, became broken up into great number of
small pInnetoids'
The most reasonable liypothethis of the formation
of planet from ring, which can conceive, is that
the resisting medium caused the lighter matter in the
outer mart of the ring to move in spiral path toward
the inner edge Of the ring rapidly than the dense
matter did; in doing this the lighter matter got the
inside tract, and overlook other Of matter and
attracted and appropriated them to itself. By the
time the largest of light matter had reached the
inner edge 1t had attracted TO itself nearly all the mat
ter of the ring and thus formed large planet.
If one Of the rings were very thick and massive,
like that from whci Jupiter was formed, its attrac-
ton would prev, mt the inward spiral movement, Just
described, In interior rings and thus force
them to break up mo great number of small bodies
analogous to the asteroids. This would be most like
to take place in the interior parts, near the primary
because there the rings very narrow, and there
fore more likely to purturb each other. According
to this theory there great number Of asterodal
rings between the Sun aud Mercury, and between
Mercury and Venus. There are seven between We
nus and the Earth, seven between the Earth and
Mars, fifteen between Mars and Jupiter, and four
betwe II Jupiter and Saturn. There may be one
asterodal ring beyond the orbit Of Saturn. but pro-
baby not more. | believe that there are ut least
two large undiscovered planets (Apolo and Miner
way between Saturn and Uranus, and one (Pluto)
between Uranus and Neptune. In the table / have
indicated tic veocties and distances of these three
be Aes seven Others that may possibly be revolving
beyond the orbit Of Neptune. Beyond these seven
planets exist in system, because sutii-
cient difference of velocity l5S0) cannot be obtained
In comparing two more systems with anoth-
err, their essential differences will be accounted for,
according to this theory, il take into consid-
Grafton /. that the larger Il primary is-all else
cqual-the greater will be the orbital veloctes of the
Interior rings, and Of the they will
be- and the less Likely to become normal planets g.
That the less dense the system-all else equal-the
nearer to the primary normal secondaries can be
formed, because the masses will be smaller and the
purturbatiOns less. 8. That the smaller the primary
all else equalhe greater in proportion will be the
of the secondaries compared with the primary
for the that the orbita veloces will be less
and Of course the resisting medium less effective.
To prevent any one from suspecting that | have
tempered with the numbers in the tables, or made
roneous calculations to suit the purposes of my theo-
nv, | have copied the actual veloces of the known
planets and satellites from DIR. Lardners Handbook
Of Astronomy, and placed them in separate columns
in the tables.