Lessons in astronomy including uranography. A brief intoductory course without mathematics (1896)
Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908 · Boston, London, Ginn and company · leaf 260
ITS OF METEORIC swarms. 247 that the orbit pursued by these meteors was identical withthat of a comet, known as Tempels, which had been visibleabout a year before; and about the same time Sehiaparelli showed that the Pcrseids, or August meteors, move in an orbitidentical with that of the bright… … Fig. 09. — Orbits of Meteoric Swarms. meteor swarms now recognized, Professor Alexander Herschelfinds five others which are similarly related, each to its specialcomet. It is no longer possible to doubt that there is a realand close connection between these comets and their attend-ant meteors. Fig.…
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