Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-11-22

had ~ ~ -~bssu fof s,,s encour.
agemeot o. my wife. veft little
search bad beeu made sInce tho
time IL sir william HsEschel, bow
ever, In 1858, and the sfnasmin1ohad
bocome current In our text bookn
that MAD had no moon.
"My search for . satellite bennn
early In August - soon - The 60
centric motion d the: p1onst
made the detDot6oa e . 41nllite
easy. At fint my o1t1o6iou ~ d.
rected to faint objects It some dis
lance from the planet, but all these
proving TO DO fixed stars on August
10 began 70 examine the. region
eloee to the planet and within the
glare 81 lIghf that surro0nd Il. On
this night I found nosLfnE. The
3mageof the planet was very blas-
ing and unsteady, and the satellites
belng ct that time near the planet l
did not zee them.
"rhe sweep around the planet
Was rgpented several times on the
night o. the nth, and ct half past
two o,clock I fsnnd . faint object on
the following sidc and little north
Of The planet, which afterward
proved to be the outer satellite. Be-
fore / had hardly time to get . good
look Ut the discovery . bank u fog
swept up from the Potomac river
and obscured the vision. For eev-
efal days thereafter the weather re-
mAined cloudy. On the night Of
August Is, tho sky cleared ut IL
O'Clock, and the asarch was resumed;
hut the atmosphere WA very bad
and nothing was seen Of the object,
which We know now was 80 near
the planet - TO be invisible. On
August l6 the object was found
again on the following side Of the
planet, and III satellite was near
one Of Its elongations. On August
IL, while waiting and watching
for the outer satellite, ! discovered
theinnee enc. The observations Of
the 18th and 18th put beyond doubt
the character Of these objects, and
the discovery was publicly an
nounced by Admiral Rodgerp.
fCLZLBO M HE 8ooSS ANIlCS.
'Ss,ll for several days the inner
moon was . puzzle. II wauld ap.
pear on different sides Of the planet
In the same night and at first l
thought there were two or three
inner moons, since 1t seemed to me
at that time very improbable that .
satellite should revolve around its
primary in less time than that in
which Its primary rotates. To de-
eide this point I watched this moon
through the nights Of August 20
and q, and saw that there was in
fact but one inner moon, which
made its revolution around the
primary In les than one-third the
time Of Its primAry's rotation, Q case
unique in our solar system. I named
the two mooas Deimos and Phpbos,
the names given the horses which
drew the chariot OF Mars"
Prof b. p. Langley, the secretary
Of the Smithsonian Institution, ex-
pressed keen interest In the views Of
Prof. Flammari0n ~ set forth In
his letter to theeHsseid. uThe profess
scr would not commit himself, how
ever, to definite opinion a. TO the
hahitancy Of Man. He said:
81 can only say that I do not
know. Mars may be inhabited.
There il no reason to think that II is
not, but from that to say that It Is
inhabited is long step. We have
reason to think that Man has an
stmosphere-in fact, We know IT.
AMI We have reason to think it has
Ice and snow, but I do not think
that there are fnhabitants. Astron.
omen have recently thought tina,
they detected canals there-if you
can call . body Of water canal
which Is sixty miles wide and four
hundred miles long,"
Professor w. c. Winlock, who 10
one Of the officers Of the Institution
especially interested In astronomy,
was not disposed to indorse the
views Of Professor Flammariou In
more than . guarded manner. He
said:
No GAl1sCuNO VI bAIC C8UA0 anu
the existence Of great changes In
what are taken for the snow spots Is
not fully proved. The discussion
about the canals me up through
the observations Of Schiaparelli,
and they are called fSchiaparrlli's
canals He has been able, he
claims, to sketch and make . map
OF these canals. They arc called
canals because we do not know what
else to call them. The maps sug-
gest . view Of Washington with
the streets radiating FROM q centre,
and il 10 peculiar that he has been
able TO SEQ them without substan-
tial change repeatedly when Mars
reaches the same position. They
are markings Of . definite character
The cloud formations shin. Schia-
parelli is . very clear eye observer
and the atmosphere ct Milan must
be very gooo. The observers ut
Nice, where the atmosphere is very
good, have been able 70 make out
these markings. I do not think
here has seen anything
that looks like . canal. While one
cannot say that Man II Inhabited, it
is more likely that 1t IL than any Of
the other planets, because 1t resem-
sies the earth more than any others
that We ran ae,eO