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 268
of 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 (/« relation to the Earths orbit, whichis represented by the small ellipse.A round it are the numbers of themonths. Only the perihelion portion0/ the meteoric path is shown, andits interset/ion with our orbit is atthe point where the Earth is about10th August. The radiant…
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