The Savannah morning news., 1900-10-07
NEw mEAvEvLY BODIES.
THAT e.. Not Exactly New, Hut Newly
Discovered.


From the London Humanitarian.
New stars are comparatively rare in as
Economical history About afteen genuine
novae have heon discovered Boz tho last go
years Among these was che new star IN
Auriga which was nrst seen early IN lss2.
winning much attention Another now star
WAS found this time by "a lady. Mrs.
Flemming in 1897 or early ln iss, 50
faint was iis light that on "a Photographic
plate which showed stars 60 the nncenth
magnitude. De- had failed 20 impress ts
Image. SIM tbere the feeble little star
was. A new variable. 700. naf been found
lately IN the Constellation cygnes-one Of
the Algol type This discovery was made
by means ~ photography. Its variations
IN light were nrst remarked n TWO sue
cesaive photographs taken at Moscow. ana
again in others at Harvard College OBJ
s,rvafory. The changes run their course
boz rather more than four days aud
half the difference between ita extremes
on brightness and dlmness helms very con
siderable Within the confines ~ our
solar system three new heavenly bodies
NOT counting astroIds-have been discov-
cred during the last ten years
Early in the ten years. ana indeed 20
long ago that We have almost ccased 70
think 81 che stranger rs new Jupitera
MN moon was found by Prof Barnard 81
the Lick Observatory So quickly DO fresh
scientlfc objects drop into the background
or established facts. But Saturn also has
lately gained "a ncw sutciluc-or rather,
We have had Go admit another into our
conception of satufn'H system rant
object has been detected on Photographic
plates. in che ueighhorhood OF saturn
changing 81 position with such rapialty
a. a. once 40 suggest the idea thht "
,nuat h.. another moon When noted a
seemed 90 be- jourueying Ia the ZANE d.
rccsIon as Saturn himself. though not 80
fast as the great planet II not "a satellite,
n can hardly be auRht else than furtheF-
of planet. but the satellite explanation
Il reck oned the more probable. This Hmhi
body. II observed BY human eyes from
saturn. would look much the same IN
point Of brightness ~ a sixth-magnitude
star observed from earth. It's diameter
has been roughly calculated aF. perhaps,
sornewhere about 80 miles. Not ~ much
service 20 Saturn as moon one
would imagine. suppoHing chat any Hueh
service" were there required The name
81 Phoebe" was proposed for chs moon
lei by Prof Pickering" after sister
OF Saturn.
Another recent discovery deserves espe-
rial meu,ion Not because ~ the bulk 81
briltionry of tho body. but from other
factors In the question whbh make " OF
inheritance on Aug. -. 1855 . German
ASTRONOMER AZ work ~ Berlin caught
glimpse Of q certain small wauderer never
before seen and the fact became spe@tiiy
known The size 81 the stranger 80 CONE
usrsd with our moon S. as a tiny isiet
compared with the Aholo mas Of earth's
continents a very minute world indeed
perhaps only some seventeen miles,
and "a most probably not more han
twenty-five miles Ia diameter-so that enc
can hardly feel surprise ~ its having 80
hong eluded the attention Of astronomers.
And yet 81 has peculiar interest for
inhabitants OF our earth. Hundreds
among enc asteroids would each sinRiy.
flr outweigh this little holy. and most
OF the known satellites are eigantic by
comparison but among all the asteroids
lnd oil the satellites Of the solar sye-
tenn noe one can b. found 20 vie IN AZ
traction with the latest found planet.
The astcroids belong one 90 another.
iourncylng in company through the vast
spaee which lies between the orbits %
Jupiter and Mars We think OF them
rs = whoie-aH "a aystem-as the possible
remnants. according 70 one theory. -
4omo great planet iu the long past And
tho satellites an belong 60 their prima-
rice.
We 30 nor uiNNNFF NHffM 70 NAfNffNNr -
planets apart. But the new small planet,
Eros. " different Eros stands alone
Eros belongs 60 no horde OF tiny neigh
bors Eros 81 controlled by no great pri-
mary Eros travels. 50 far NJ We can
tell In solitary state; not between Jupi-
ter and Mars bat between Mars and the
earth 10 has always been asserted that.
after the moon. no single body In all
the heavenE-puttiug aside the thought
OF metcorites-ever approached nearer 90
earth than Venus on the one side. ana
Mars on the other. That can he said no
longer Eros ~ almost half as near
again az Venus and only about oue-third
as far OF ~ Mars. The nearest point
70 which the moon ever comes Il. about
-is. 90 miles away. The nearest point OF
Mars is over $500 ON miles. and that %
Venus over 2l.ao00Q miles away. But the
little panel Eros Vs. or soon Will he.
viii hin if.0u0000 miles % us. So the find
ing OF Eros tiny though that planet be,
may be looked upon a. an epoch IN the
History OF the solar system.