Elements of astronomy: accompanied with numerous illustrations, a colored representation of the solar, stellar, and nebular spectra, and celestial charts of the northern and the southern hemisphere (1875)
Lockyer, Norman, Sir, 1836-1920 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 177
ught to be distributed? What is said of 170 METEOES AND METEOEITES. mass is so small that it is entirely changed into vapor anddisappears without noise. There are other classes ofmeteoric bodies, however, with much more strikingeffects. At times meteors of unusual brilliancy are heardto explode… … Fig. 69.— Fire-ball, as observed in a Telescope. plosions, which were compared to the discharge of athousand cannon. Other meteors are so large that theyreach the Earth before complete vaporization takes place;and we then have a fall of what are called Meteorites,often accompanied by loud…
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