Elementary astronomy; a beginner's text-book (1899)
Holden, Edward Singleton, 1846-1914 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 389
ts return journey. Thefigure also shows the position of the comet in 1874. It will returnto perihelion again in the year 1910. 364 ASTBONOMY. Orbit of a Parabolic Comet. —Figure 197 shows the orbit of a cometdiscovered by Perrine at the Lick Observatory on November 17,1895. The places of the comet… … Fig. 197—The Orbtt of Comet C. 1895, and the Orbit ofthe Earth, drawn to Scale. The Sun is at the Centreof the Diagram. ing dates in the two orbits will show the direction in which thecomet was seen from the Earth. A line shows the direction of theVernal Equinox. The plane of the paper is the plane…
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