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o, and when they will be back again. Their direction, as they cross the earthsorbit, is obtained by observing the position of their radiant, as we have alreadyexplained ; and the time that it takes them to go around the sun can be determined byreckoning back to the showers that have been recorded… … 158 THE LOCOMOTIVE. [October, 1864, that the data that he was able to collect were consistent with any one of Jiredifferent orbits, which he described in detail. He also pointed out that the earth hasnot always encountered the meteor stream on the same date, the date being October 19thin 902 (i.…
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