Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-20
THE PALE-FACED COYSH MOON
SIR Robert Bali Furnishes New and H.
tsrostiag Explanation Of tile Causes
fer Its Being without an
Atmosphere.



have cOncluued that our moon Nus u9 o,i
mOsphore. since the most delicate uptcol
tests have failed lu snow lhttr are "hf
indications ~ such % guseous envelope u'
surrounds our avn earth and other planets.
MHfNpmutiUiuua hive computed rue hruritt
and extent of the atmosphere that ihc moon
should have. but our satellite setInlnsy Lv-
fuses 10 comply WITH the regulations pIt,
scribod by the powerful force gravity Ahu
$50 "a very Anomalous CONDITION EXISTS. lua
matter hos u,oly p9Ial,2 ln, ,'.,. o,',
plausible reason us tp how 10 might he
possible for "a planet io "se iis atmu'-
phcr" " 10 bad one d. lhc beginning
According tu er hppcri bMl, lur cur
uent Euglish scientist, the modern studies
ON the behavior of g1H'a furnish u- with
tue mo1u8 uf explaining ihe hnN'.,' vl
off gases Teaches us thnt amy gus, such us
those COMPOSING our atmosphere d. luuhe
up uf mulDuuIp, when ore ih % STATE ul
continual motion, aud ihis movement is %
very rupld one. Do hydrogen gas it Averages
about OUlu feet Ur uuIp lhIn % mile, per
second but Tor oxygen and nltrogru, cue
EusUH which make 800 Our ulr. No iH less.
Nuw, if the moon bad ana atmosphere ukt
OURS and tur extreme Nuluriurs or ihr
molecules which compose thu gusrs reached
q milo "a second. ODE PARTICLES ou tine outer
thIa latter 81 not large enough tu have SUIT
flcieut grayttuOuu force lo overcome such
% velocity, and "a particle moving away
from the moou with this .pccd would not
return again The next layer of air would
then become thn outer One ana ihr escape
OF ltg most uyI'yu PARTICLES would follow
cIusu upou thu.p of tun FORMER outside luyDr
Thus Che Joss uf lFur after layer would
result in thU uUu depletion uf perhaps the
whole uir mass lh lur 'asr OK our own
Vuih tue uH.a D. H1 great that 90 particle
must have % velocity or NN miles D. second
boo order 10 escape Iu opposition lU tNo force
uf gravity. IHB Ia several umUs tNp aver.
uEn amount ul notion fHr the gases coin.
posing our atmosphere. 300 that IuUrn ls
sufficient latitude tNI great variation 900
cNurmr cus" before l.r critical Nt,o'ilA,
4 60. tIo velocity H reached and so WU are
probably NOT losing uuy OF our UIr. or
COURSE This Dr. merely n theory. hUI Tor
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