Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1907 — Differ About Saturn's Rings. [ARTICLE]

Differ About Saturn's Rings.

The view advanced by Prof. Percival Lowell that the “knots” recently discovered in the rings of Saturn Indicate that the rings are falling is not accepted by Prof. Simon Newcomb of Washington, who says that Struve more than a half century ago propounded the theory of the Calling rings Of Saturn, based upon early drawings compared with late ones. Newcomb says the rings are now viewed almost edgewise, so that it is impossible to distinguish one from another. He prefer* the theory put forth by Clerk e-Maxwell sixty years ago, that the small satellites which compose the rings sometimes crowd together. Prof. Broshear of Pittsburg agrees with Newcomb.