PLANET JUPITER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 176, 20 April 1908, Page 7

PLANET JUPITER.

EIGHTH MOON DISCOVERED. 7 8T TELECRAriI—raESS ASSOCIATION—COPYKIQHS .■ London, April 17. .. Jupiter's eighth mooii has been',discovered by tho GroonVfich. Observatory., : ■: ,- > In her "book on "Modern fcosniogonies" Mieb Agnes IL. Clerkb states"Exhaustive photographic leseSi-ch promises to unfold ; intricacies of construction iu sccoiidal-y syfitenls of the. planets demanding: thb. patient'industry of. many ', generations for' 1 their complete unravdmeht.; The families of the great planets will perhaps bo .found, to include crowds of inferior . members which pay - slight heed. in their circulatory arrangements, to tho trammels, of convention. 'In those'of both Jupiter,- and Saturli the..pheuomoiioii has lately beeh brought to: light of 'asteroidal' satellites, as thlßy lliay' 'be' termed, hiinUto bodies travelling, round their primaries at nearly tho same mean distances, each group evidently representing the urtagglomerated materials' of ; a siugle .full-sized,-.satellite.' The pigmy components, of such groups doubtless .; exist in multitudes; each great planet, most likely, is eilcoinphssed'by at lehst one zone of moonlets; but. so far, only ■_ sp6cinieli-objects havb beeh picked ,Ui). . The. teiith Saturnian' satellite, discov6reu, like its predecessor, by Professor W. It. Pickering, is thus associated, by its period and locality, with ' Hyperioli, the seventh aud least prominent of Saturn's visual train, the apparent insignificance of which ■ suggested to Sir John Herschel that it might havb many co-occupahts of .the wide gap -between Titan and. lapetus.; But the sui;niisc hod to aivait verification,until methods were intensified beyond what seemed possible iri tlii middle of the nineteenth century. We are .billy. beginniSig to mako'acquaihtahco with the submerged populations of the Saturnian' and Jbvian kingdoms; they are perhaps multitudinous;, they are certainly peculiar/ and we await impatiently and curiously tho ' further developments of their remarkable jbehaviour." - ' . ■.