Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1892 — JUPITER’S NEW MOON. [ARTICLE]

JUPITER’S NEW MOON.

Fifth Satellite—Great eat. ’Discovery of tbs Century. Professor Barnard has earned a niche tor himself beside GalHeo, Herschel and other men of that kind and the permaneir cy of his fame is as secure as it can be. S. '»¥. Burnham, .the well known astronomer who recenlly resigned from the staff a: tbs Lick observatory to accept ths nosition of clerk of the U 8. Circuit - Court in Chicago, road* the remark Monday and Jjtowed a telegram which read: ’’Mo-mi Hamlitcn Observatory, Sept. II. —E. !••'. Barnard vends greeting to S. W. Burnham with a Cltji-eatoliite to Jupiter of the Ih'.rfeeiC.h magnitude, period 17 hours and 16 minutes, distance from center mi'es.” “The discovery of this satellite which was made by Barnard Saturday," con tintied M. Brn n’mm. "Is tho greatest astroncmic-?. 1 .-t.-cievonicul of the century end will cause the world of science to ring. It simply means the addition of another body to the stflar systom, which is,in those day*, a mext sinpeadlous discovery.”