THE CHANGES IN THE MOON.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 410, 12 October 1889, Page 3

THE C HANGES IN THE MOON .

As changos are supposed to be taking place in the lunar crater Plinius, about 10 p.m. on the night of the Ist inst. I turned the telescope on this crater, which is about 32 miles in diameter and was formerly , full of small hills, the two central hills lying nearly north and south according to Webbs map of the moon. At intervals when the air was steady I found that the central hills had disappeared, and two craters had taken their, place, both lying at right angles to where the hills formerly stood. Last evening being fine I was able to examine the wholo of the floor of Plinius.and observed that the two craters in the centre had white ramparts or walls surrounding them, that of the crater to the eastward appearing to have a break in its south-east rampart. On the western floor, and parbly hidden by the shadow of the wall of Plinius lay a small and apparently deep crater ; a shallow depression lay east of it ; both of these were examined minutely, but there appeared no trace of a wall or rampart surrounding 1 them. I estimate the largest of the central craters as about 3 miles in diameterj'&nd the rampart surrounding it must be of considerable breadth to be visible. at the moon's distance from us. The most probable explanation of these changes would seem to be that of a volcanic outburst. ,Of course none, of these changes can be seen without considerable magnifying power. J. T. Stevenson, F.R.A.S. Auckland, October 3rd, 1889.

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