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 203
n the other hand, if a wan-dering comet crosses the wake of the chief planetaryscout the latter simply drives it away by acceleratingits motion and compels it to steer off into open space.The transformation of comets into meteors will beconsidered in the next chapter, but here, in passing,mention… … # ^ .^ STRANGE ADVENTURES OF COMETS after a few revolutions in its impressed orbit, torn topieces and turned into a flock of meteors. And now let us return to the mystery of cometstails. That we are fully justified in speaking of thetails of comets as mysterious is proved by the dec-laration of Sir…
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