Giberne, Agnes, 1845- [from old catalog] · Cincinnati, National book company · leaf 269
m. And the nearest sys-tems known are those of the stars. The nearest star of all, whose distance has beenmeasured, is Alpha Centauri. It has been roughlycalculated that a comet, passing direct from AlphaCentauri to our sun, would take about twenty millions 264 STORY OF THE SUN, MOON, AND STARS. of… … BARON ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT. other stars lie really much nearer to us than AlphaCentauri, whose distance astronomers have not yetattempted to measure. In order to complete our view, says Alexander MORE ABOUT COMETS AND METEORITES. 265 Von Humboldt, of all that we have learned to con-sider as…
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