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fatellite* s greated vilible elongation from its planet, at the mean 
diftance of the Georgium fidus from the earth, will be 44'', 23. 
It ought to be mentioned, that in the redu&ion of this mea- 
fure I have ufed Mayer’s tables for the fun, and the tables 
publifhed in the Connoijjance des- Temps of the year 1787, re- 
duced to the time of Greenwich, for the Georgian planet. 
Very pollibly this diftance might not be taken exactly at 
the time when the Satellite happened to be at the vertex of 
the tranfverfe axis of its apparently elliptical orbit ; but, from 
other meafurements, we have reafon to conclude, that it could 
not be far from that point. For inftance, the 9th of Novem- 
ber, at j 5 h. 56 7 15", by a mean of four good meaiures, the 
fatellite was 44", 89 from the planet; which, by calculation, 
reduced to the fame diftance of the Georgian fid is from the 
earth as the former, gives 4i /7 ,33. And likewife, the 191I1 
of March, at 7 h. 45' 59", the didance meafured 44 7/ ,2 + ; 
which, computed as before, gives 42 // ,i5. Now, we find, 
when the places are calculated in which the fatellite happened 
to be at the times when thefe two meaiures were taken, that 
they fall 011 different Tides of the former meafure, and alfo on 
oppodte parts of the fatellite’s orbit; but that neverthelefs 
they agree lufticiently well with the pofition of the tranfverfe 
axis which wc have adopted in the fequel. 
Admitting, therefore, at prefent, that the fatellite moves in 
a circular orbit about its planet, we cannot be much out in 
taking the calculated quantity of 44", 23 for the true meaiure 
of its didance. And, having afeertained this point, we calcu- 
late, by the law of Kepler, and the afligned period of the 
fird fatellite, that its didance from the planet mud be 33 / ) 09. 
I ought however to remark, that, in this computation, a true 
fidereal period fhould have been ufed ; but, as that cannot as 
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