New Britain herald., 1928-02-24

1 they push the material of the world
 to one side, and often pile them up
 around the hole that they make to
 the height of several miles. All
 of these embryo worlds are very
 rough, being covered with holes | large and small. where meteorites ! large and small have struck them; and between the holes there are
 high mountains and low ridges
 where the rocks have been pushed 1 to one side and piled up. From the ! holes that some of these large me- i torites make great cracks radiate in all directions which are often hun i dreds of miles long and thousands
 of feet deep. | Upon these embryo worlds there
 is very little volcanic action. If there was the holes would be filled with lava. Extensive volcanic action cannot take place except where there is water and there is very l little water upon these small worlds.
 When meteorites strike these little worlds great heat is often generated by the force of the impact, and con- siderable fusion often results, buy the lava simply runs into the radf-
 ating crack. and among the broken
 racks, and soon cools there. In this
 way these worlds form rather
 solid crust that covers q loose mass
 of meteorites near the center.
 The Making of Comets
 All Of these embryo worlds are
 eventually drawn into solar systems when they become comets. When these worlds are drawn into solar systems too quickly, that is beforo
 they become very compact and solid on the outside, they break up easily into meteor streams, after which
 they eventually fall upon the sun | or some of the planets of that
 system. When these small worlds are large enough so that they have a rather solid crust, and are drawn
 into solar systems they do not
 break up as quickly into meteor
 streams. but this is their general
 fate eventually.
 The Rings Of saturn
 Sometimes one of these little worlds happens 10 pass near enough
 to one of the planets of solar system so that the graNitational force of the planet seizes it and
 holds it, providing it's velocity is not too great. The moon Is one of these baby worlds. and this is how the earth captured it. This is how Jup,- ter and Satan got their numerous satellites, and this is how Saturn got it's rings: because these rings of Saturn's are nothing but fragments of small worlds that came to tn" planet as comets and that were seized and held by the great gravita- lional force of the planet. To begin with these rings were caused by 3 collision between two small worlds that were captured as satellites at about the same time. and that tried to revolve in, the same orbit. but could not. After the collision the fragments Of these small world, spread out and revolved abou, saturn in a ring. After this. other comets that tried to pass through Saturns system were caught in this ring of fragments and ground up. adding their mass 10 the rings. These -"ings of Saturn's are come' catchers. and as result of tn" comets they have caught they hayp grown quite rapidly, the inner ring having drawn down to the surfac, of Saturn several thousand miles since it was discovered about three hundred years ago. saturn is on tn outskirts of the solar system where it has a much better chancc ot capturing comets than Jupiter has; lut it Is only q question of time