Litchfield enquirer., 1872-09-19

ipaxtly by sallsctsd light, Jupiter not only Maz1ns huk lights his moon, rather than n lgnted by them. What arer the condi .0ns of these attendant orbs we mlzef Assitate to say, thotigh they mn
 questiOnably fill some important part in
 the great economy Of the solar system
 and whaf part mors important than that 5f dwelling phase for organized exist sence. a4gga. .tfsal lsSga .#4sfsf2 Eef34 . Respecting Saturn the same conclusion
 has been reached. It is, in all probabii- U, . sun, undergoing vast physical chang
 es, the scene of gigantic disturbances to-
 tally uniting it for habitation. Yet it's
 complex system Of satellites and rings are
 worthy of speculation. Are its subordi-
 nate planets, as we'll as those of Jupiter.
 in relation to their great primaries, real .miniaturess of the solar system? Surely something less complex would have, sery-
 ed to light the voidless wastes, or to sway the tides of these two grand planets.
 Here, however, ell must be pure hypoth- sesis-au must be naked speculation, un-
 clothed by any amount of sober and we'll
 attested scientific observation. And this
 is equally true of the other two planets. which hke Saturn and Jupiter, are out
 side of the zone of the asteroids. "Four
 suns they would seem to be, not indeed
 suns resplendent like the primary sun .Found which they trsvel, buG still giving
 out perpaps no insignificant supply of
 light not heated to incandescence as he is, but still supplying an amount of heat propor6onaly far greater than the quantity
 ofhght they give forth in fine, not as
 he is to the inner planets the sole source
 whence ali supplies of force are derived, , but adding their influences to his in a va- riety of complicated but doubtless we'll ordered combinations, in such sort that the small worlds which circle around them are provided with all that is needfrlf to the we'll being of observation-disclosures. ]. 9a4 .9 A1Lsag the attendants of the planets
 our moon may be xegarded as having it's condition fully established. Whatever may have been the circumstances favor
 ing it's habitability in past ages, the. ab- sencs now of an appreciable atmosphere to the moon, the want of large tracts of water, and the enormous length of the lu- mar day fequalling in duration fourteen ofoar daysl are conditions opposed to our conceptions of what is suitable for animal and vegetable life. But the bod les circlng around the outer planets are markedly contrasted in physical condi- tions to our own satellite. The seconda- nes of Jupiter and Saturn do not always turn the same face to their primaries and even were this the case respecting those of Jupiter, it would not result in an inordinate lengthening of thelr diurnal periods. So. also. may this be asserted regarding the moons of Saturn, which ac- complish their revolutions in periods ranging between twenty-two hours and ionr and half of our days. To the in- habitants. if there be any. of the inner
 most of Jupiter's satellites, he presents 2 disc covering Q space more than fourteen hundred times that of our moon, whilst those of the outermost of his moons, have m him magnificent orb fully sixty.tive times the magnitude of our nocturnal lu- minary. To the nearest of Saturn's satel- !ites that planet offers an apparent sur lace more than nine hundred times that of our moon, and to the furthermost he still presents 6 disc fully four times as great and the inhabitants of this last have. from tha inelinatinn of its nrhir to the plane Of Saturn's ring, the most splen- did display of this wonderful and. and as far as we know, peculiar feature. The relations of these satellites are not unfa- vorable to the view Of their habitability. Of the oFbs of Uranus and Neptune we know less even than of the planets them on. liEa #LE IA tty&4 5s.,s-s.ss..y -.tte