Moulton, Forest Ray, 1872-1952 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 389
hypothesis is confirmed and virtuallyproved by the identity of the orbits of certain meteoricswarms and comets. In 1866 Schiaparelli showed that the August meteorsmove in the same orbit as Tuttles comet of 1862. That is,in addition to the comet, which is a member of Saturnsfamily, there are many… … Fig. 132. — Orbit of the Leonid meteors. comet of 1861 move in the same orbit, and that the pathsof the Andromids and Bielas comet were likewise the same.It has recently been claimed that the Aquarid meteors ofearly May have an orbit almost identical with that ofHalleys comet. While it is not…
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