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Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)

Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 216

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anges, Eunostos, Cerberus and others.Again the gemination duly put in an appearance in 1897, andwas depicted in many drawings by Mr Lowell. The widthof each of the double canals was 25 to 40 miles, and their dis-tance apart 135 to 170 miles, from centre to centre. Theoases were about 200 miles in… … MARS, I7TH JANUARY 1S97 (CERULLl)(The long double canal is Eumenides-Orctts) Eumenides-Orcus plainly double. It is somewhat curious thatthose observers who have seen the gemination best are mostpuzzled as to the cause of it. In fact, no plausible explanationof this wonderful phenomenon has yet been…

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