Astronomy, a handy manual for students and others (1918)
Dyson, Frank Watson, Sir, 1868-1939 · New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 170
all radiate ordiverge from a common point. This point is calledthe radiant point. The existence of a radiant pointshows that all the meteors are moving in paralleldirections. If, for example, meteors were falling per-pendicular to the Earth, their paths when drawn on a THE SOLAR SYSTEM 159 globe… … Diag. LXXIII. wich on November 13, 1866, are plotted. It will beseen that they all appear to come from nearly thesame point of the sky. The Leonids.—One of the most interesting of theseswarms of meteors has its radiant point in the con-stellation Leo. Meteors diverging from this radiantmay be seen…
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