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 274
tof the Earth and plan-ets; but their path ismuch more eccentricthan that of the No-vember meteors, andthough at perihelion itmeets the Earths orbit,at aphelion it stretchesfar beyond Neptune. These discoverieswere speedily followedby another, priority inwhich belongs to Pro-fessor SCHIAPARELLI… … PATH OF THE AUGUST METEORS{In relation to the Earths orbit, whichis represented by the small ellipse.Around it are the numbers of themonths. Only the perihelion portionof the meteoric path is shown, andits intersection with our orbit is atthe point where the Earth is about10th August. The radiant…
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