MR. BISHOP'S OBSEEVATORY, REGENT'S PARK, MEMORABLE BY THE DISCOVERY 

 THERE OP ELEVEN PLANETS. 



THE NEW PLANETS. 



1. Discovery of these planets. 2. The old planets. 3. Numerical law 

 of their distances. 4. A missing planet. 5. Conjecture of Professor 

 Bode. 6. Discovery of Ceres. 7. Of Pallas. 8. Theory of Dr. 

 Olbers a broken planet. 9. Discovery of Juno. 10. Of Vesta. 

 11. Rapid discovery of the others. IV. Table of the group. 

 13. Circumstances corroborating the theory of Dr. Olbers. 

 14. Amateur astronomers. 15. Minute bulk of these planets. 

 16. Corroboratory of Dr. Olbers' theory. 17. Force of gravity upon 

 them. 



1. WITHOUT being astronomers, every one who reads the 

 newspapers must be familiar with the fact, that within the last 

 few years a multitude of small planets has been discovered, 

 which, notwithstanding the vigilance and sagacity of observers, 

 in various parts of Europe, had hitherto escaped notice. As the 

 circumstances attending and preceding this extraordinary mass 

 of astronomical discovery are novel and interesting, we propose at 

 present to bring them before our readers. 

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No. 76. 



