THE ASTEROIDS BETWEEN MARS AND JUPITER. 

 Table II. — Elcmcnt>i of the asteroids — Continued. 



363 



Name. 



Alcraeno 



Sirooa 



Ceres 



Thisbe 



Pallas 



LcBtitia 



Bellona 



Leto 



Galatea 



Gallia 



Dike 



Juewa 



Terpsichore 

 Polyhymnia 



Antigone 



A "laia 



Calliope 



Psyche 



Hesperia 



Danae 



Nuwa 



Coronis 



Lomia 



Lencothea .. 

 Laurentia ... 

 Liberatrix .. 

 Xantippe ... 



jEgle 



Gyrene 



Arethiisa . . . 



Pales 



Hecate 



Eiiropa 



Seniele 



Doris 



Lachesis 



Emilia 



Protogeneia. 



Loreley 



Erato 



Electra 



Atala 



Themis 



Autiope 



Hygeia 



Euphrosyne . 



Clymene 



Mnemosyne. 



Dione 



Aurora 



Undina 



Hecuba 



Urda 



Gerda 



Bertha 



Johanna 



Sibylla 



Freia 



Cybele 



Herraione... 



Sylvia 



Camilla 



Hilda 



d 



'.706 



;. 76(5 



I. 7(i7 



.767 



i. 77-2 



;. 773 



1.777 



80 



81 



;.783 



797 



814 



853 



:. 8GI 



:. 876 



:. 88-.i 



. 909 



;. 921 



978 



985 



:. 986 



1. 990 



:. 991 



;. 993 



. 021 



i. 035 



036 



0.50 



065 



083 



084 



091 



101 



11-2 



.113 



1-20 



125 



1-25 



129 



,129 



130 



132 



136 



1-36 



144 



147 



147 



151 



155 



1.59 



160 



185 



211 



216 



220 



221 



321 



378 



409 



427 



461 



482 



560 



950 



d 

 1C79. 98 



1680. 34 

 1681.41 



1681. 46 

 1685. 34 

 1086. 44 

 1690. 70 

 169.3. 50 

 1093. 08 

 1695. 76 

 1708. 27 

 1737. 00 

 1760. 45 

 1767. 87 

 1781. 33 

 1786. 95 

 1812. 20 

 1823. 42 

 1877. 00 

 1884. 17 

 1884. 66 

 1888. 82 

 1889. 12 

 1890. 64 

 1917. 98 

 1931. 47 

 1932. 19 

 1945.31 

 1959. 74 



1977. 36 



1978. 23 

 1984. 33 

 1994. 91 

 2005. 19 

 feOOO. 02 

 2012. 97 

 2018. 06 

 2018. 75 

 2021.31 

 2022. 17 

 202i'. 39 

 2024. 54 

 2028. 13 

 2028. 85 

 2036. 40 



2038. 95 



2039. 31 

 2043. 17 

 2047. 35 

 2051. 09 

 2051. 80 

 2076. 27 

 2101.90 



2109. 12 



2110. 08 

 2111.46 

 2210.61 

 2267. 80 

 2299. 07 

 2317. 19 

 2351. 40 

 2373. 50 

 2(53. 62 

 2867. 04 



DISCUSSION OF THE FACTS CONTAINED IN TABLE II. 



3. Tl^e theory of Olhers. — The hypothesis that the asteroids are the 

 fragments of an exploded planet was proposed by Dr. Olbers in 1802. 

 While the known members of the group were but few in number, this 

 bold conjecture seemed highly plausible ; it has, however, been com- 

 pletely disproved by more recent discoveries. The breadth of the aste- 

 roid ring, as at present known, is greater than the entire interval between 



