8 Wilde, New Binary Progression of Planetary Distances. 



planets upon Neptune is easily demonstrated by the 

 accompanying diagram, whereon, from the exigencies of 

 space and clearness of definition, the intra-Jovian planets 

 are not included in the demonstration. 



27. Reverting to the small amount of the difference 

 between the sums of the binary progression in column 4, 

 Table i, and the observation distances in column 5, it 

 will be seen that the latter is a plus quantity, as 104162 — 

 I03'25 =0912. Now as the amount of the contraction of 

 the radius vector of Neptune is i9'4io Mercurian units 

 (696,000,000 miles), as shown in column 6, the plus 

 difference, 0*9 12, between the two sums of the binary 

 progression and the observation distances may well be 

 accounted for as being the amount of the reciprocal 

 attractions of all the planets upon Neptune in accordance 

 with Newton's third law of motion, acting through periods 

 of time too immense for calculation in the present state 

 of our knowledge. 



28. Assuming the future contraction of the orbit of 

 Neptune to be continuous, his radius vector will ultimately 

 coincide with that of Uranus, when the two bodies would 

 either revolve together about their common centre of 

 gravity in the same orbit, or coalesce to form a single 

 self-luminous planet, when the same operation would be 

 repeated in succession with other members of the system. 



29. It is further postulated that all the planets would 

 ultimately coalesce to form one or more self-luminous 

 bodies revolving round the sun, as one of the binary or 

 ternary systems of stars, of which upwards of ten thousand 

 have been discovered and catalogued during the last 

 century. 



30. The probability that the ultimate transformation of 



