ASTRONOMY AND METEOROLOGY. 



NEW PLANETS. 



Four additional asteroidal planets have been discovered during the 

 past year, making the whole number now recognized seventy-six. 



The seventy-second asteroid, though optically discovered in 1861, 

 was first recognized as an individual planet in January, 1862. Its 

 detection is due to Mi*. Safford, of Cambridge, Mass., who had been 

 engaged contemporaneously with Dr. Peters, of the Hamilton Col- 

 lege Observatory, New York, in observing the planet Maia, discovered 

 in the preceding April by Mr. Tuttle (see Annual of Scientific Dis- 

 covery, 1862, page 368). To this planet the name Feronia has been 

 given. 



The seventy-third asteroid was discovered April 8, 1862, by Mr. 

 Tuttle, of the Cambridge (Mass.) Observatory, and has received the 

 name Clytie, a name borne by a daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, 

 in the ancient Greek mythology. 



The seventy-fourth asteroid was discovered August 29, by M. 

 Temple, at Marseilles, France, and has received the name of Galatea. 

 This planet is supposed to have been discovered by Mr. Parkhurst, of 

 New York, three weeks later. 



The seventy-fifth asteroid was discovered September 22, by Dr. 

 Peters, of Hamilton College, New York. 



The seventy-sixth asteriod was discovered by M. D' Arrest, at Co- 

 penhagen, and has received the name of Freya, the Venus of Scan- 

 dinavian mythology. 



Asteroid fifty-nine, discovered by M. Chacornac, at Paris, in 1860, 

 which has not heretofore been definitely named, has received dur- 

 ing the past year the name Olympia. 



The asteroid Daphne, which has persistently escaped the re- 

 searches of astronomers since its discovery in 1856, and which seemed 

 hopelessly lost, is believed to have been rediscovered, and its ele- 

 ments determined, during the past year, by M. Luther, of Bilk (see 

 Annual of Scientific Discovery, 1862, pp. 369, 370). Some changes 

 have been recently made in the heretofore received nomenclature of 

 the asteroids. Pseudo-Daphne, the asteroid mistaken in 1857 for 

 Daphne, has received the name Melete. Asteroid fifty-nine has been 

 designated as Olympia, and also as Elpis ; sixty as Daniie ; sixty-one 

 as Echo ; sixty-two as Erato ; sixty-three as Ausonia ; sixty-four as 

 Angelina ; and sixty-five as Cybele. 



The asteroid nearest the sun is (seventy-two) Feronia ; the one 



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