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 271
omets in thepast have been known to disintegrate, — for example, that ofBlELA, already illustrated on page 192, in its double form ; andits story has been admirably told by Professor Newton. Ap-parently the process went on so rapidly that in 1885 farthersubdivision had taken place, and it is now… … BROOKS COMET OF 1S90 {In process of disintegration)(Barnard) During the shower of the Biela meteors, 27th November 18S5,however, a piece of this comet fell upon the Earth, at Maza- pil, Mexico; and on subse-quent occasions we may expectto capture still other fragments,as the Bielids enter the…
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