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 316
guides a planet, and forces the planet to move aroundhim in an ellipse. But our sun will also condescendto guide an object no bigger than a shooting star. A THE PATHS OF METEORS. 303 bullet, a pea, or even a grain of sand will be held to anelliptic course around the sun as carefully as the… … Meteors Fig. 80. —The Earth crossing the Track of Meteors. and performing its path in real independence of itsneighbors. The orbit followed by this shoal of meteorsis enormously large and wide. Here is a sketch of thepath (Fig. 80), and I have laid down the position ofthe orbit of the earth, but…
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