Collins, A. Frederick (Archie Frederick), 1869- · New York, London, D. Appleton and company · leaf 138
Y 117 meteors which are not very bright, while meteorites are meteorswhich have fallen to the Earth before they have had time toburn up. Many meteorites have been found, but ninety-five out ofevery hundred are of the stony kind, the others being of theiron kind. The way to tell a meteorite from a… … Fig. 133.—The Milky Way. meteorite is to grind and polish a part of its surface and thencover it with a dilute solution of nitric acid, when markingslike those shown in Fig. 132 will be etched upon it. The Milky Way.—You have, no doubt, often seen on a clear,dark night, a wide, ragged band of light…
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