Star-land; being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1899)
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 270
ed to return to the depths of outer space.This terrific outburst of speed does not last long. Apace which near the sun is 20,000 times that of ourexpress trains diminishes to 10,000 times, to fifty times,to ten times that pace; while in the outermost part of A COMETS TAIL. 257 its path the comet… … Fig. 72.—How the Comets Tail is disposed. urally suppose the tail of a comet streamed out alongits path in a somewhat similar manner. This would bequite wrong. You see from Fig. 72 that the tail doesnot lie along the comets path, but is always directedoutwards from the sun. If you will draw a line…
Astronomy
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