Curiosities of the sky, a popular presentation of the great riddles and mysteries of astronomy (1909)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929 · New York, London, Harper & brothers · leaf 189
ain. The hypothesis that comets areoriginally interlopers might seem to derive somesupport from the fact that the certainly periodic onesare associated, in groups, with the great outer planets,whose attraction appears to have served as a trapfor them by turning them into elliptical orbits andthus… … swifts comet, taken at arequipa, march 30, 1892 STRANGE ADVENTURES OF COMETS Yet if comets do come originally from without theborders of the planetary system, it does not, by anymeans, follow that they were wanderers at large inspace before they yielded to the overmastering at-traction of the sun.…
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