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Meteoric astronomy: a treatise on shooting-stars, fire-balls, and aerolites (1867)

Kirkwood, Daniel, 1814-1895 · Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co. · leaf 19

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^is represented in Fig. 2. Fiff. 2. … For general readers it may not be improper to premisethe following explanations: Meteors are of two kinds, cosmical and terrestrial: theformer traverse the interplanetary spaces ; the latter orig-inate in the earths atmosphere. Bolides is a general name for meteoric fire-balls ofgreater magnitude…

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