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The elements of astronomy; a textbook (1919)

Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 293

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frequently the emissions from the nucleus takethe form of mere jets and streamers, as shown in Fig. 94,which is a drawing of the nead of Tebbutts comet of 1881.This was an extremely active one, continually throwing outjets, breaking the nucleus into fragments, or exhibiting someother unexpected… … Fig. 94. — Tebbutts Comet, 1881. (Common.) 278 COMETS. [§388 trated by Fig. 95. At least, this theory has the great advan-tage over all others which have been proposed, that it notonly accounts for the phenomena in a general way, but admitsof being worked out in detail and verified mathematically,…

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