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3. Some suppose that these asteroids, Ceres, Pallas, Juno, and Vesta, are fragments of a planet which God may have broken up and destroyed.

Juno,

Juno is an asteroid, very small: its diameter has never been measured. It revolves round the sun in 4 years and 128 days.

Vesta.

Vesta is an asteroid, but so small that its diameter has not been ascertained. She moves in her orbit between Juno and Jupiter, and takes 3 years, 66 days and 4 hours in her journey round the sun,

JUPITER.

1. Next beyond Mars comes Jupiter, a vast planet about 1000 times bigger than the earth, his diameter being 89000 miles.

2. God has appointed his place, 490 millions of miles from the sun; but the wisdom of the Creator has supplied this want of light, by giving him four attendant moons to revolve about him, and light his sky.

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3. Báze ádmí khiyál karte hain, ki Síríz, Pállas, Juno, aur Vestá, cháro saiyáre ek saiyáre ke tukre hain, ki jis saiyáre ko Allah ne tor dálá hai.

Juno ke bayán men.

1. Juno ek niháyat chhota saiyárah hai : uske qutr kí darází daríyáft nahin hai. Wuh apne daur ko gird áftáb ke chár baras, aur ek sau aṭṭháís din men tamam karta hai,

Vestá ke bayán men.

1. Vestá ek aisá chhoțá saíyárah hai, ki uske qutr kídarází dariyáft nahín huí ; uska daur bích Juno, aur Mushtri ke dauṛon ke hai. Aur wuh apne safar ko gird aftáb ke tín baras, chhasath din, aur chán ghanțe men tamam karta hai.

MUSHTRY KE BAYAN MEN.

1. Merrikh ke daur ke bad Mushtrí ká dauṛ hai. Yih ek nihayat baṛá saiyárah hai, zamín ke saiyáre se hazár gunne se ziyádah! Uská qutr nauásí hazár mailz daráz hai.

2. Khuda ne usko áftáb se beális karor sát lák mailz ke mufasale par jagah dí hai, lekin phir usne apní kámil tajwíz se, uskí kam roshní purí karne ko, uske hamráh chúr chánd kar die! takih we gird uske ghumá karen, aur uske ásmán ko roshan rakhen!

3. He travels in his distant course with the awful swiftness of 29,000 miles every hour.

"Four shining moons with borrowed lustre rise.
Bestow their beams by night, and light his skies :"

4. His four moons are some bigger and some smaller than this earth. His first, or nearest moon is 229000 miles distant from him, and goes round him in one day and 18 hours.

5. The Deity has so arranged his moons, that his skies are almost always lighted up by one or other.

6. He is the largest of the planets, and travels in kingly state.

7. Vain man is apt to think that this little planet of ours occupies all the Creator's care.

8. Let him reflect that an observer in Jupiter, if looking towards this earth, would not even see our little ball; neither Mars, Venus, nor Mercury! so near would they be to the sun, as to be lost in his light,

SATURN.

1. The planet Saturn is no less than 600 times larger than our earth, his diameter being 79,000 miles.

2. He is far removed from the sun, or 9000 millions of miles, yet he is warmed and lighted by its rays. A cannon ball would take about 215 years in flying from one to the other.

3. He travels round the sun at the rate of 22,000 miles every hour, though he seems to us to go very slowly.

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