Popular astronomy : a concise elementary treatise on the sun, planets, satellites and comets (1865)
Mitchel, O. M. (Ormsby MacKnight), 1809-1862 · New York : Oakley & Mason · leaf 315
pidity at every point, so that its rectilinear figureis preserved in this tremendous sweep. In case the tailwere composed of ponderable particles, obedient to thelaws of gravitation and motion, this would be impossible,for if we consider each particle an independent body, de-scribing an elliptic or… … THE CREAT COMET OF 1858.KNOWN ASDONATlS COMET THE COMETS. 295 form of tail, straight and dii^ected from the sun, womight frame an hypothesis which could account for thefacts; but in some instances there are many tails to theone nucleus, and these not straight, but curved like acimetar. In other…
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