Astronomy for the use of schools and academies (1882)
Gillet, J. A. (Joseph Anthony), 1837-1908, Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910 · New York : Potter, Ainsworth, & Co. · leaf 344
airy that a million milesthickness of it looks only like gauze in the sunlight. It is notat all unlikely that such a thing may have happened withoutever being noticed. A passage through a telescopic cometwould be accompanied by a brilliant meteoric shower, probablya far more brilliant one than has… … Fig. 358. matter. If, as Professor Peirce supposes, the nucleus is a solidbody of metallic density, many miles in diameter, the effectwhere the comet struck would be terrific beyond conception.At the first contact in the upper regions of the atmosphere, thewhole heavens would be illuminated with a…
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