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 211
ived at thecrossing - point. Then Leverrier showed that theoriginal comet associated with the November meteorswas probably brought into the system by the influenceof the planet Uranus in the year 126 of the Christianera. Afterward Alexander Herschel identified thetracks of no less than seventy-six… … METEORS, FIRE-BALLS, METEORITES do not belong to a flock or system probably formedby the disintegration of a cometary mass; even theapparently sporadic ones which shoot across the sky,lost souls in the night, being members of flockswhich have become so widely scattered that the earthsometimes takes…
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