Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-06-23

1000, the arrangement 81 tie masses Of
the planets, taking thsm in The order Of
their distance from the sur, is as follows:
SUMS mass.............-...... 90. $50 $780, 600
terrestrial PLANETS.
MerCUrI = mass. -.-..---... %
Venus mass....-......-.... ....-.. nS
Earth 9 mass. -.-..-....- l,tUO
Mara mass. .............. 1890 --....-- Il2
MINOR PLANETS.
Total mass Of asteroids probably less
GIANT PLANETS.
Jup!ttr's mass................. ........ 5l5,o96
Sai urn's mass. --.-... --.-----.-. "4.5Si
| Uranus matt. ........-....-. I4,t2l
| NeptUGe's mass..--.... ..-.-.-.-....,. lI'e3
It ID incredible that such processes as
LsplaCe imagined, even il they could
possibly have begun and continued SIS r.
suggested, could nave resulted in gro
| ducing system the masses composing
which are 90 Irregularly dispersed "a Ike
above tsouIated statement Indicates.
But so soon as we consider the theo'y
| Of the development CT the solsr system,
not from the consideration c. widely dis
persed yet impossibly cohesive yapors,
! but from the aggregation OK WIDELY dis
persed al ID freely moving bodies skin to
meteors and serolites, we perceive that
! something resembling the above arrange
ment Of the planetary masses, artificial
though it appears at first, would be Very
SPIT TO result.
! Imsgining the compOnents CT the i'm
mense meteor cloud moving in crOits Of
widely different eccentricites, in all di-
REGIONS, and in planes OF 81 conceivable
positions, but with prePonderance OF
| direction corresponding with the nlti-
mate direction Of the plsnetary revclu-
tions, and with q general tendency
/ n Of tho &c bnlp
meteor. cloud though not recognizable IA
the movements Of email numbers Of the
aerolithic bodies) we perceive that the
fiaAl outcome Of
THE PROCESSES OF AGGREGATION
would be the formation OF system circu
Iatfng in one general direction, and with
a M srked tendency to motion in or near
certain median p!sne. Far the greater OF
the meteoric bodies would aggregate st
the center. Iadeed, for millions CT years,
probably from the time tie process Of
aggregation began, there would be no
other aggregation Of any Importance ex-
cept thai 10 the middle, from which, long
after, the future central sun Of the system
Hss to be formed.
But in the courge Of time, as meteors
moving in the more eccentric orbits be-
came eliminated by being gathered into
the central mass, and general pre-
v:lence OF motion in one direction and
tending toward median plane began to
be manifested, subordinate aggregauons
would have chance 70 develop. The
region where such development would
proceed under the most favorable cocdi-
/, lions would be OF some distance from the
, central segregation where the Velocltles
of meteoric motion would not be too
great, and where, at the same
time. q sufficient wealth Of meteoric
material would be available. Il is
obvious that there would &c 4 s,e,dy in
crease OF meteorc Weslth from The ex-
IRENE outside Of the region where the
system WAS forming up 20 the veEy neigh
b3rhcod Of th2 central aggregation. But
it is equally obviCus that close ~ the sun
the develapmart OF subordinate aggrega
lions you'd proceed under very uIfaVor
able conditions, il cCnst que1ce OF the
tremendous veIUcities with which ihe
meteors would there be moving. Inc
following stat ements win regard TO these
ve!aCities will serve at once TO snow his
and to interest Ct thiCh) the reader VINO
may not hsve considered THIS special
point.
at the distance from tie aciusl center
OF inc IOEEJDS SJSASL-I VIA Il $3.50 =
with the suns surface, the velocity of
, meteors travelling in circles would De III
miles per second, but the velocity OF
I meteors, having Gcce2tric ORBITS and
, passing their periheli01 st this distance
, would be not less than 3S3 miles per
second. At Meroury's distance
THE VELOCITY IN CIRCLKs
, would be thirty miles per second; the
maximum velocity Corresponding to en-
!, exceedingly eccentric orbit with Mer-
cury's mean distance IS the
! least distance !rcm the sum
forty-two miles per second. Al
Venus distance the velocity N circles
twenty-five miles per second. Inc
maximum velocity thirty one miles per
, second. At the earth'S distance me We
, locities of the Two respective kinds would
be Is snd 26 miles per second. At Msrs'
distance Is and 81 miles At the mesu
distance Of the asteroids, IL miles snd 10
miles per second. At Juptter's distance
the veloci.ies would respectfully be s
and IL miles; st SsturD's, 6 miles and -
miles; at Uranus, miles and miles;
and lastly, at Neptune's distance, 81 and
II miles per second.
Msnifestly there would be some dis
lance st which abundance Of meteoric
matter and the absence of very high -
locisies would cause aggregation to gSon
under most favorable conditions. Here
an aggregation would begin 20 form ear :
lest; would gather in its material mo37
quickly, and would flallY become ~
after the great central msss, the g44Af
the system. This would De Jher,