Recreations in astronomy : with directions for practical experiments and telescopic work (1879)
Warren, Henry White, 1831-1912 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 138
tning sign of extinction, and,consumed in fervent heat, drops to the earth as gas ordust. If we add the number light enough to be seenby a telescope, they cannot be less than 400,000,000 aday. Everywhere we <^\ in a space as large as that upied by the earth and its atmosphere, there mustbe at… … Yvi. 49.—Bolides, ut to publish, as the startling result of his investi-J3 that the heat which the earth receives direct-ly from meteors is the same in amount which it re-from the sun by radiation, and thai the sun re-five-sixths of its heal lV<>m the meteors that fall. it. 122 A SOLAR…
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