.9...Phoebe............1898.....8,044.......550.4......0.1659.........160
10...Themis............1905.....c.800
Solar System Bodies: Uranus.
Its discovery by Sir William Herschel on March 13, 1781, added a new factor to the problems of Astrology,
and incidentally widened the horizon of observation of planetary influence upon human life. Inserting the
planet into the existing horoscopes, revealed that Uranus had been the previously inexplicable cause of violent
dislocations, fractures, separations, mental disturbances and deaths. With its discovery there came a new
interpretation to the old phrase "by visitation of God." Herschel called it Georgium Sidus, but England
continues to use the name Herschel - from which derives the symbol although the rest of the world adopted the
name Uranus by which Bode referred to it in 1783. Astrologers had long speculated upon its existence,
referring to it as Ouranos. It is sometimes called "The cataclysmic planet."
The astronomers' symbol is one of the few cases in which astronomers and astrologers fall to employ the same
symbols.
As its Equator is inclined by 82° to the plane of its orbit, the regions of perpetual day and night reach to within
8° of the Equator.
Its satellites are:
...............Disc. ..Sidereal period...Magnitude..Diam.
...Ariel.......1851.......2d 12.489h.........16......560
...Umbriel.....1851.......4d 3.460h.........16-17...430
...Titania.....1787.......8d 16.941h.........14.....1000
...Oberon......1787......13d 11.118h.........14......900
Solar System bodies: Neptune.
Until the discovery of Pluto in 1930, Neptune was supposed to be the outermost member of the solar system. It
was discovered September 23, 1846 by Galle in Berlin, in the region suggested by Leverrier of Paris; but later
was identified as the "star" observed in 1795 by Lalande of Paris. Agrippa dedicated a temple to Neptune in
honor of the naval victory of Actium. To the Greeks, known as Poseidon. It is a greenish disc of the magnitude
of 7.7, and is distant from Earth by 30 astrom. units. Its revolutionary period is 164y.
It has one known satellite, Triton, about the size of our Moon, and 220,000 miles distant from the planet. It has