The Creighton Chronicle . THE REALM OP SCIENCE 455 astronomers could desire. So that, as I said, the capture of thisone planetoid more than repays the labor of keeping track of theother eight or more hundred. Then again orbits of the asteroids have gaps or empty-lanes, from which the perturbations of the large planets,especially those of the giant Jupiter, have torn them away andmade their times of revolution more in unison with theirown. In this way we may learn much about the mechanism ofthe heavens. Following up this last idea I will call attention to only onemore point, in which an asteroi
The Creighton Chronicle . THE REALM OP SCIENCE 455 astronomers could desire. So that, as I said, the capture of thisone planetoid more than repays the labor of keeping track of theother eight or more hundred. Then again orbits of the asteroids have gaps or empty-lanes, from which the perturbations of the large planets,especially those of the giant Jupiter, have torn them away andmade their times of revolution more in unison with theirown. In this way we may learn much about the mechanism ofthe heavens. Following up this last idea I will call attention to only onemore point, in which an asteroid may prove to be of great is in regard to the problem of three bodies. Having estab-lished the law of gravitation, that bodies attract each other witha force which is directly proportional to the product of theirmasses (or the matter they contain) and inversely so as to thedistance between them, Newton completely solved the problemof two bodies, and showed that they must forever revolve aroundone another in si
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