378 Z)r. HerscheL on the Georgian Planet. 
The fituation of the orbit of the firft fatellite does not feem 
to differ materially from that of the fecond. 
We (hall have eclipfes of thefe fatellites about the year 
{ IS ’ w ^ en they will appear to afeend through the (hadow 
of the planet almoft in a perpendicular direction to the ecliptic. 
The fatellites of the Georgian planet are probably not lefs 
than thofe of Jupiter. 
The diameter of the new planet is 34217 miles. 
The fame diameter feen from the earth, at its mean diftance, 
is 3">9°554- 
From the fun, at the mean diftance of the earth, 
T 14", 5246. 
Compared to that of the earth as 4,31769 to 1. 
This planet in bulk is 80,49256 times as large as the earth. 
Its denlity as ,220401 to 1. 
Its quantity of matter 17,740612 to 1. 
And heavy bodies fall on its furface 1 8 feet 8 inches in one 
fecond of time. 
Slough, March 1, 1788. 
W. HERSCHEL. 
