Recreations in astronomy : with directions for practical experiments and telescopic work (1879)
Warren, Henry White, 1831-1912 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 137
e laws as the worlds, and are an integral partlie solar system—a part of the unity of the universe,one has seen the so-called Bhooting-stars,break out with a sadden brilliancy, shoot a few- with quiet speed, and are gone before we canThe cause of their appearance, the 120 A SOLAR SYSTEM. conversion… … Fig. 48.—Explosion of a liolide. about twenty miles nearer the surface. Their averagevelocity, thirty-five, sometimes rises to one hundredmiles a second. They exhibit different colors, accord-ing to their different chemical substances, which arcconsumed. The number of them to be seen on differ-ent…
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