A beginner's star-book; an easy guide to the stars and to the astronomical uses of the opera-glass, the field-glass and the telescope (1912)
Murphy, Edgar Gardner, 1869-1913 · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 110
they fall at random out of space,, as was once thought. Theyrevolve, apparently in swarms, in orbits about the Sun,—some speeding in the same direc-tion as the planets, some with motions that are retrograde, and some in orbits that crossour own. So rapidly do they move that they enter our… … HEAD OF HALLEYS COMET, MAY 8, 1910 Reduced from Photograph taken at the Ml. Wilson Solar ObservatorySee also pp. Q2 and 137 95 96 a Beoinners Star^BooU picked up are called meteorites and aerolites. From about July 20th to Aug. i6th (maximumof display Aug. 11 th) the earth passes through a swarm of…
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