Chase. } 100 [July 20, 
aphelion (30.46955), these rupturing nodes would occur at 15.238478 ; 
7.61739 ; 3.80870; 1.90435 ; .95217; .47608; .28804. The first belt would 
include Neptune and Uranus; the second, Saturn; the third, Jupiter ; the 
fourth, the asteroids ; the fifth, Mars and Earth ; the sixth, Venus (grazing 
also the Earth and Mercury belts); the seventh, Mercury. 
After the nebula had assumed a globular form, these rupturing nodes 
would occasion constant tendencies from opposite extremities of every 
diameter, to the formation of confocal elliptic orbits, with major axes of 
3r 
~ and minor axes of 7/87. Those ellipses would mutually intersect at 
a 
2r ; 
3° thus tending, through collision of particles, to form a belt at that dis- 
tance from the centre. The v. ». communicated by simple fall from 7 to 
27 
aS sgr, which is equivalent to 
». v. of circular-orbital revolution 
at 7, and also to the orbital »v. ». 
r 
gained by contraction from 7 to 9° 
The internal motions and collisions 
of the particles of the belt would 
form a condensation of the densest 
and comparatively inelastic materi- 
als, until the whole acquired the 
Oriani 
4 =: 
mean orbital v. »v., 
3gr fala i 
aay which is the normal orbital 
9 
oe The following table ex- 
hibits the double tendency, to nebular rupture and to nebular aggregation, 
starting from the point which would account for the orbital velocity of ° 
Neptune. The approximation of ‘‘B’’ to the planetary distance which 
would satisfy Bode’s law, and the indications of Neptunian aggregation 
during direct fall towards the centre, lend new confirmation to the views 
which I have already expressed, in regard to the rationale of Bode’s law, 
and the relative masses of the two outer planets. 
o. v. at the nodes of aggregating collision, 
Rupturing Secondary 
Nodes. Nodes. Planets. 
2x W a* 60.93910 40.62606 oe Sie —— 38.8 
Va 30.46955 20.31303 6 @ = 20.68 
3 Va 15.23478 10.15652 h a = 10.34 
at ao 7.61739 5.07826 Ype = 4.89 
* a secular aphelion; p secular perihelion. 
