THE SHOOTING STARS Adams, one of the discoverers of Neptune, showed that these minute Leonid meteors revolved round the Sun in a _ well-defined orbit in a period of thirty-three years, and that the orbit intersected that of our planet. It thus be- came apparent that meteors were distributed all… … Fie. 6.—Passage of the Earth through the thickest portion of a Meteor Swarm. The EKarth and the Meteors are here represented as approaching each other from opposite directions. on its journey round the Sun. The failure of the main swarm to encounter the Earth in 1899 was a source of much difficulty…
Astronomy
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