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Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)

Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 272

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ccompanying dia-gram. The Earth, passing throughthat point of its orbit in themiddle of November, encoun-ters meteoric matter on everysuch occasion; but the me-teors being much more closelyaggregated in a certain por-tion, called the gem of thering/ the most aboundingshowers occur only every… … PATH OF THE NOVEMBER ME-TEORS AND OF TEMPELsCOMET (1866 i) {In relation to the planetaryorbits, to which it is inclinedin sfiace about 170) companying illustration ; and by means of it the trails of brightmeteors have been located among the stars impressed on pho-tographic plates, with a precision…

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