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THE APPROACHING OPPOSITION OF IRIS.—The opposition of this minor planet in the present autumn affords another favourable opportunity of determining the amount of solar parallax on the method already successfully applied by Prof. Galle, of Breslau, in the case of Flora. The Berliner astronomisches Jahrbuch for 1879 contains a rough ephemeris of Iris for every twentieth day of the year, but this being insufficient for the purpose in view, we subjoin places calculated from Prof. Brünnow's tables of the planet, on the approximate formulæ explained in his introduction; the error of the tables being very sensible at the present time, nothing would have been gained by calculating in the accurate form. For the sake of brevity the planet's positions are given for every fourth day only, but they will be readily interpolated for the intermediate dates.
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 16, 477–478 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016477c0
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