New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-24

They only forty fifty niles thick and 10000 miles
WIDE great dat sheet which cannot be sod Probably
itis IKE flight OF birds made up separate particles.
ago, Bond, Of Cambridge. to the conclusion. from
their all the time that they could be solid
rngsi ana Pelfce, examining the matter matheMeu-
cay came also TO the conclusion that they could not be
a e IN MANI s1ey might DC liquid bit probably
Clerk Maxwell mas investigated the matter anew and
that the rings CONSIST OF flight OF meeors Whether
the component bodies are large birds as large as
large How long have the rings been there
tell The fact that they have Existed for samoa zoo
years is some evidence that they win prob
cannot saw That they are permanent structure 1t is
unique, so far we know, in the whole system of the
There has been q suspicion that the planet was
true oval in TIA form; that the ball Of the planet APP
tnis may be optical illusion, and the probability is
that the form Of the planet is perfectly true. OF the
trum Of different planets observed by Voge In 1874
there are lines probably produced by Tue presence Of
In the spectrum OF Jupiter have these dark
bands and day may hnd out hat material pro-
ducss them bur we do no know yet III uranus also
we nave a system OF peculiar bands
sha not be able 10 say much about the planet
Uranus IN the time remaining to me- It is planet 600
miles In diameter andwas found accidentally In l7Sl IL
Is OF no great interest in the telescope except from its
four satellites which are about the smallest objects TO Dc
seen m the telescope. But the discovery OF this planet
led TO another which was very Interesting 1t had been
SAID that the law OF gravitatOn accounted for all
motions OF the planets but after about forty years OBJ
seryaon OF Uranus people began TO be rather sceptcal
for it was going wlaso Wild that could see It, II
the real planet in the sky aud the computed planet
by Us slde very sharp eye could detect IL, looking like
elongated the two being about foot apart
the two stars Alpha Lyr8, which form beautiful
double star In the telescope. Some people
lance from the had broken down. Others sald that
q reasonable explanation would be the action OF
planet still more Distant; and they went into calcula
lion what OF planet cou account for this dis
crepancy Leyerrier, in France and Adams, IN England
bOtn young men at the time came to nearly the
Ignorant Ot the others WOfk-tnat
planet could be seen IN certain part OF the sky Adams
wrote 10 Cbals OF Cambridge 20 make a search aud
he went at It IN real English way. He undertook a
survey OF region ten degees wide and twenty degrees
long intending 10 go over IL ana ehanhe every star,
tue planet would have changed its position He had
stars short OF the planet. when the news came from
Berlin that the planet was found. II he had
probably found But Leverr!er had gone TO work
in another way very much like frenehmsn He wrote
TO Gale, IN Berlin, telling him that his computations
said the planet ought to be In such place you Will
find within degree OF that place. ana YOU VIII Know
nces In diameter looked for it, and enough, within
halr hour, there II was Gale at once called up
Encke; and have heard Brunnow, who then an
assistant IN the observatory give cunt OF It, When
Encke looked through the telescope ana saw me planet
Is II possIDeP planet discovered before it
by It's effect upon the motions OF another
GENESIS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
One word more TO the possible genesis of
the solar system is system One theory is that
way outright Another theory, generally held, is
that 1t grew previous condition. believe
that the theory called the nebular hypo-
thesis suggested about the time by Kant
aud La Place. century with some notifications s
substantially IL 10 the theory that in the first
pace all planetary space WAS filed with nebuar
mass OF cloud and dust mingled together like smoke
particles OF matter mingled VITA gas probably not OF
uni density throughout for there seems u be no
reason why II should be- and extending beyond the oDlI
OF ne most distant planet cannot say where tnat
smok e came from cannot go back beyond that point
even upon TINS l0eOry IL was mdu9 surely " some
time. The effect of gravttatOu upon such mass OF
mater, then, IN the form OF rOdghy gioohlAr Jun D.
such as tue n"Ohe we hni now eAsInB ia 'l5 81 Cou
centritng the mass would be, unless the motion was
precisely towards the centre, TO produces yortleai
o. whiting mOuOni sucn as gI,u s sec , mAen tne
water is escaping from waShbOwl. Ihe least Wsnt
OF symmetry VIII produce whrnng motion roe re-
suit Will DE st that Tue Temperature VIII rse'ds tlG
In the next place the rilng mss wil
body would be surrouhded Dy rugs very P.e.y
experiment has been devised 10 Illustrate that
ball OF OIL Is suspended In mixture Of wafer ana alcO-
hO In sucn proportions thit the dehs " IL precisely
that Of he oil. Tue ball Ia made 70 r0aie aud wlle1
pand aud II you strike H. little pieces Will snap OF; or IL
II turned with sufficient care wll Dnge OUT ana
gradually form ring ike that OF Saturn, winch wlll
OF plsnetsor moons revolving around the central one
La Place supposed the planetory system was formed IN
the orbit 81 the Outermos planet then gradually con
ipg and forming SERIES OF rings wHch uuWatey
Whether tins - stem can De true ia us ehureV 1
very meea qouG mods ofacSa for otaeP%ise
Inc moons oil Mars never could quicker tnan
the rotation OF the planet ITSELF Yet something IKE
this may De the correct theory.
one word ne 10 the stability Of the system. The mu
tu action OF he planets never can destroy II. But 1t
does not follow that 10 is gong ~ stand Tor ever
There IL loose matter In space, aud al
tnog IL now yefy slightly interferes win the motion
ol Tue planets, plaueOry system may az some time
pass through PORTIONS OF space upon tins meteOro mat
Ter more abuuduJ shan 10 now Is aud the motions VI
the plans ma, experience more resistance the result
being that ultimately al the planets must be swallowed
M IA the again. That seems to be, far
iIpge The ultimate CondttlDn OF tug, unless something
happens nrst We cannot tel what Oihcr cataslFO-
pno may come before that time lAppiausCl