SATURN’S RINGS.
ANOTHER DEVELOPING. exceptional features have characterised tho recent disappearance of Hio rings l of Saturn, resulting from tho mm and tho earth being tornpomrily on opposite sides of the ring plane. •Though theoretically invisible, (says the r< Westminster Gazette/') several reliable observers, during the past‘three months, saw the rings as n thin lino of light, and it has boon suggested this was due to tho sun shining between the divi-, sions. From America, too, came tho sensational announcement that tho rings woro ‘'nondcnsing' , and falling in on Saturn itselfand. now comes a report that M. Fournier, observing from tho Puy-do-Domo. Franco, has seen “a faint, transparent, and luminous ring outside the exterior ring/' which has not before boon noticed.. Should this new Saturnian appendage be real, instead- of tho old rings breaking Up, they would appear to have developed another tuomber of their wonderful system.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6489, 8 April 1908, Page 9
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