The Asteroids

About this eBook

Author

Kirkwood, Daniel, 1814-1895

Title

The Asteroids; Or Minor Planets Between Mars and Jupiter.

Credits

E-text prepared by Paul Clark, sp1nd, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)

Language

English

LoC Class

QB: Science: Astronomy

Subject

Asteroids

Category

Text

eBook-No.

41570

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41570

Release Date

December 6, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE ASTEROIDS, OR MINOR PLANETS BETWEEN MARS AND JUPITER.
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.PART I.
5. 5.THE ASTEROIDS, OR MINOR PLANETS BETWEEN MARS AND JUPITER. — 1. Introductory. PLANETARY DISCOVERIES BEFORE THE ASTEROIDS WERE KNOWN. — 2. Discovery of the First Asteroids. — TABLE I. The Asteroids in the Order of their Discovery. — 3. Remarks on Table I. — 4. Mode of Discovery. — NAMES AND SYMBOLS. — 5. Magnitudes of the Asteroids. — 6. The Orbits of the Asteroids. — TABLE II. Elements of the Asteroids.
6. 6.PART II.
7. 7.DISCUSSION OF THE FACTS IN TABLE II. — 1. Extent of the Zone. — 2. The Small Mass of the Asteroids. — 3. The Limits of Perihelion Distance. — 4. Was the Asteroid Zone originally Stable?—Distribution of the Members in Space. — COMMENSURABILITY OF PERIODS. — 5. Relations between certain Adjacent Orbits. — 6. The Eccentricities. — 7. The Inclinations. — 8. Longitudes of the Perihelia. — 9. Distribution of the Ascending Nodes. — 10. The Periods. — 11. Origin of the Asteroids. — 12. Variability of Certain Asteroids. — 13. The Average Asteroid Orbit. — 14. The Relation of Short-Period Comets to the Zone of Asteroids.
8. 8.APPENDIX. — NOTE A. THE POSSIBLE EXISTENCE OF ASTEROIDS IN UNDISCOVERED RINGS. — NOTE B. THE ORIGIN AND STRUCTURE OF COSMICAL RINGS. — I. — II. — THE END. — FOOTNOTES:

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