Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 309
enter the air seems to bevery near the parabolicvelocity of 26 miles asecond, due to the sunsattraction at the earthsdistance—just as shouldbe the case, if, like thecomets, they come to usfrom inter-stellar space;but more recent researchesof Professor Xewton seemto show such a decidedpreponderance… … Fig. ioi.Fragment of one of the Amana Meteoric Stones. 403. Observation of Meteors. — The object should be to obtainas accurate an estimate as possible of the altitude and azimuth of themeteor at moments which can be identified, and also of the time occu-pied in traversing definite portions of the…
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