Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 294
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,… … Fig. 95. — Formation of a Cornets Tail byMatter expelled from the Head. According to this theory, thetail is simply an assemblage ofrepelled particles, each moving inits own hyperbolic orbit aroundthe sun, the separate particles hav-ing very little connection with oreffect upon each other, and…
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