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 298
iggerthan our earth, or often even bigger than the sun.Sometimes a great shooting star is seen which makesa tremendous blaze of light as bright as the moon, oreven brighter still. These objects we call meteors, andyou will be very fortunate if you can ever see a really SHOOTING STARS. 285 fine one.… … Fig. 77. —A Brilliant Meteor. lege of beholding them. But it is not about the greatmeteors that we are now going to speak particularly;they are often not so interesting as the small ones. These little meteoroids, as we shall call them, havea curious history. They become visible to us only atthe…
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