Among these, that of the satellites of Jupiter was one of the most remarkable.
The distances of the four known satellites increase in so regular a way that it can hardly be supposed that any others exist between them.
In one exceptional instance the two outer satellites of Uranus appear to have been glimpsed with an object glass of only 43 inches aperture, and the facts are given in detail in the "Monthly Notices of the R.
Galileo had called thesatellites of Jupiter the "Medicean stars," after Cosmo de' Medici.
Herschel, however, considered he had obtained conclusive evidence of the existence of six satellites with sidereal periods ranging from 5d.
Of what may be inside of Ariel it is impossible to speak with certainty, since in the state of atmosphere which prevails during our winter all the satellites named disappear at 10" from the planet.
Lord Rosse notes that all four satellites were seen on the same side of the planet.
The matter was thus allowed to rest until the middle of the present century, when Lassell, in the pure sky at Malta, endeavored to reobserve the satellites with a two-foot reflector.
The first things discovered by the telescope were the larger satellites of Jupiter.
The evolutions of the satellites are quite regular, according to the astronomers' calculations, but they seemed to the earthly astronomers to vary, because of the time which light took to traverse that 186 millions of miles.
The platform at Holborn Viaduct; and there, to Pennyloaf's terror, it is seen that Clem Peckover and her satellites have come by the same train.
But the separation of satellites depends--according to the received view--upon the attainment of a disruptive rate of rotation.
But instances are not rare, more especially of the third and fourth satellites standing out, during the entire middle part of their course, in such inky darkness as to be mistaken for their own shadows.
The first vital issue for each of them was--satellites or no satellites?
The effects of annular condensation appeared to have stamped themselves upon the plate, and two attendant nebulæ presented the aspect of satellitesalready separated from the parent body, and presumably revolving round it.
The weather was superb; above the Rocky Mountains the sky was of such purity as to permit the detection of Jupiter's satellites with the naked eye on several successive nights.
Discovery of twosatellites of Mars by Hall at Washington.
The most illustrious point in its career, entered upon in 1873, has been the discovery of the satellites of Mars.
It will be remembered that Uranus presents the unusual spectacle of a system of satellites travelling nearly at right angles to the plane of the ecliptic.
The European Space Agency launches its communicationsatellites from Kourou.
They are worked up to a high pitch by the satellites of the prospective mayor.
In the great hall of the station there were about three hundred of Henry Ford's satellites going off on their Christmas vacation, as well as many others.
You know that Roemer used eclipses of the satellites of Jupiter, and sought how much the event fell behind its prediction.
The newer method of Jupiter’s satellites proved of great value in the hands of Delisle, the real founder of modern geographical science.
The difficulties of making note of Jupiter’s satellitesin their eclipse, under the most favorable conditions, will be sure to entail an error of a half, or even a whole, minute.
The Martian day is about one half-hour longer than ours, but when the two minute satellites of Mars were discovered it was noticed that the inner one of the two revolved round Mars in about seven hours forty minutes.
Surprising as it may seem, we already have an illustration of this possibility in the satellites of Mars.
The attractive force of the primary ought to have increased in the same ratio, but we do not find that it has, and the centrifugal and the centripetal tendencies of our satellites are year by year becoming more nicely balanced.
I should myself judge from experience of what democratically elected parliaments are growing into, that at the first session of such a body the satellites would fly off into space, shattered perhaps themselves in the process.
The satellites (with the exception of those of Uranus) revolve around their primary planets, and also rotate on their axes, in the same normal direction.
Jupiter, its satellitesemployed in the determination of the velocity of light, 51 et seq.
It might be said, then, that Saturn, instead of having ninesatellites only, has untold millions of them, traveling in orbits so closely contiguous that they form the appearance of a vast ring.
The remarkable thing about these satellites is that they revolve backward, or contrary to the direction in which all the other satellites belonging to the solar system revolve, and in which all the other planets rotate on their axis.
There has been cumulative evidence that Jupiter's satellites obey the same law that governs the rotation of our moon, viz.
The diameters just mentioned are Professor Pickering's estimates, based on the amount of light the little satellites reflect, for they are much too small to present measurable disks.
The interesting suggestion was made and urged by Mr. Proctor that if Jupiter itself is in no condition at present to bear life, its satellites may be, in that respect, more happily circumstanced.
It can not be said that very much has been learned about the satellites of Jupiter since Proctor's day, and his suggestion is no less and no more probable now than it was when first offered.
The victor, who had all at his disposal, was now to express his pleasure concerning those satellites of Prussia, which, till her fall, had looked up to her as their natural protector and ally.
He also discovered the eighth satellite of Saturn, of extreme minuteness, as well as two additional satellites of Uranus.
It is the schemers and the satelliteswho haunt the contractors that are the vermin of dockyards.
And the satellites beam with admiration of the Oracle, and think what a privilege it is to go to the races with such a knowing man.
But the sheep-man and his satellites came out, riding stable-fed horses and brandishing twenty-foot whips, all determined to sell their lives dearly.
I'll get even with Sheldon before I leave the Academy," declared Herring to Ernest Merritt and another of his satellites a day or so after the exciting scene in front of the school.
It was considered to be remarkably good for its length, and showed the satellites of Jupiter very distinctly.
The center section shows the motions of the planets and their satellites and the right-hand section the eclipses of the Sun and Moon.
He springs to a table: the police satellites are eyeing him; alive they shall not take him, not they alive him alive.
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