Letters relating to the discovery of Intra-Mercurial Planets. (Communicated by Admiral John Rodgers, Supt. U. S Naval Observatory Washington D.C.).
✍ Scribed by Lewis Swift
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1878
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 299 KB
- Volume
- 93
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0004-6337
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✦ Synopsis
Band 93.
T,etters relating to the discovery of Intra-Mercurial Planets.
(Communicated by Admiral John Rodgers, Supt. U. S Naval Observatory Washington D.C.)
The announcement by Professors Watson and Swift of the discovery of several intra-Mercurial planets during the late solar eclipse, is of such importance tliat the following letters of these astrnnomers will be read with interest. Tlic letters give the detailed reports of the discoveries, and will not be essentially altered by future reductions. In a more recent letter Prof. Watson gives the following positions of the two objects which lie supposes to be planets. 1824 July 29 5111W37s ( u ) 8WP435 + 18O16' 4l/2 TVash.1IeanTime rc d Magnitude 29 5.17.46(6) 13. 9.15 + 18. 3 4 U. S. Naval Observatory Washington Aug. 2s. 78. Ann-Arbor, Sugust 13th 1876. 11y dear Sir: 1 am now able to give you more precise information in reference to my observations of a sullposed new planet during thc recefit total eclipse of the sun. The place