The call of the stars; a popular introduction to a knowledge of the starry skies with their romance and legend (1919)
Kippax, John R. (John Robert), 1849-1922 · New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 520
, and is supposed by Bar-ringer, Merrill, and other observers, to have been formedby the impact of a mass of meteoric iron of enormousand hitherto unprecedented size, but which remainsas yet undiscovered. It has been conjectured thatthis monster meteorite had a probable diameter offive hundred… … TIk Verkes 40-inch Kcfructor (The largest refracting telescope in the world. Its big lens weighs 1.000pounds, and its mammoth tube, which is 62 feet long, weighs about 12,000pounds. The parts to be moved weigh appro.ximately 22 tons. The great 100-inch reflector of the Mount Wilson reflecting…
Stars · Constellations · Planets
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