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 256
MARIA MITCHELL (1S1S-1SS9) Comets 205 … which travel in long elliptic orbits, and many whosepaths are parabolas, have retrograde motion. Tempelscomet of 1S66 (the comet of shortest known periodcombined with retrograde motion) travels round theSun in rather morethan 2,3 years, andis intimately asso-ciated with thestream of Novem-ber…
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