New York Times
New York City, NY.
June 14, 1860
Page: 2
- The last number of the London Philosophical Magazine contains a paper by Mr. J. Waterson, recording an elaborate series of inductions with respect to the heat engendered by the possible fall of a meteor into the sun. NEWTON, as is well known, conjectured that the sun received a supply of force from bodies descending upon it. A conjecture favored by Mr. CARRINGTON'S recent observations of the sun, establishing the fact of an outburst of light above the solar surface. The burst of light, was of much greater intensity than the sun's normal surface. The existence of a transparent atmosphere seems also to be positively demonstrated by the blaze occurring above the spots. Mr. WATERSON estimates the solar temperature as above TEN MILLION degrees (10,000,000 degrees); which, to say the least, certainly throws our terrestrial temperatures quite into the shade.
