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 277
he theorythat all meteors were originally parts of cometary masses is onethat may be accepted without much hesitation. Comets in thepast have been known to disintegrate, — for example, that ofBiela, already illustrated on page 192, in its double form ; andits story has been admirably told by… … 218 Stars and Telescopes Another interesting fact bearing upon this subjectmust be mentioned here. On 27th November the During the shower of the Biela meteors, 27th November 1885,,however, a piece of this comet fell upon the Earth, at Maza- pil, Mexico; and on subse-quent occasions we may expect,to…
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