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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 376

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pse,the parabola, or the hyperbola.If a comet move in the ellipti-cal form of orbit, it will returnto view from time to time. Ifit is moving in either of the twoother forms of orbit, after pass-ing around the sun it recedes into infinite space,and will never visit our system again. Sometimes a… … FIG. 3- BROOKS COMET OF 1885. (TELESCOPIC VIEW.) rays of the sun. It was first seen in the south-ern hemisphere. When it came into view in 364 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [Feb. the northern hemisphere as a great comet inthe early morning hours of September, 1882, ithad passed before the…

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