Deseret Evening News | 1901-04-16 | Page 3 | The Planet Eros

TUB TIm T Variations of ol Intensity lt ol oh In his It I t New York April Anih 16 A special to the time Times tram from coin BOHton says Eros I roll the little planet hut has hns been een watched so Ao closely close I by b astronomers late lately ly 13 I on account of Its nearness to the he earth has recently taken an aim additional Interest Until within a 11 short hor tUne Eros Iros hits has beets been simply on ne OC account count of ot Its position by means of ot which It Is hoped to 10 determine more inane closely the distance between the earth and nd the lie sun attn Title This spring the lie planet has shown marked markell changes In light anti Is the tho first of or the lie asteroids In which variation of or light lute has been firmly es established It 1 has Isas been brett found by lIy the lie Harvard observers that lint the time intensity of ot the lie light changes two or 01 three thre times In as nil many hours This Is 18 accounted for COl In two ways Some astronomers astro think that hat one side of tit the Is dark and amid the other light und arid that as 01 It revolves first tho he light and then therm the he dark side she Is present cd cil to the watchers m o earth curtis other ob observers servers F anti and especially e those In Europe believe that the planet Is double and that the two spheres so 80 revolving around one another first present their combined light and then lien only the time light of ot one The planet Is believed to re revolve reo valve volve In live five hours hourn