A popular handbook and atlas of astronomy, designed as a complete guide to a knowledge of the heavenly bodies and as an aid to those possessing telescopes (1891)
Peck, William, Sir, 1862-1925 · New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 127
ponge-likemasses of nickeliferous iron, with various silicates inthe cavities. The siderites are by far the heaviest ofthe meteorites, one at the Kensington Museum actu-ally weighing three and a-half tons. It is fortunatefor science that these masses occasionally fall, as theycan be analysed, and… … Fig. 18. metkoric stones. COMETS AND METEORS. 11 part, of the same nature as meteoric dust, and therefore no new element has been found, which shows that evenin the distant celestial regions the same kind of matter exists as on our earth—a testimony which is also borneout by spectroscopic analysis…
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