Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 218
eport of which is sometimes perceptibleto a considerable distance, and by a shower of meteorites.The globe of fire bursts, and splits up into luminous frag-ments, scattered in all directions. The different parts ofthe fire-ball fall to the surface of the Earth, under thename of aerolites, or rather… … FiG. 56.—Fire-Ball seen from the Observatory at Juvisy,August 10, 1899. tached; and the Greeks even gave the name of Siderosto iron, the first iron used having been sidereal. 199 ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS No year passes without the announcement of severalshowers of uranoHths, and the phenomenon…
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